US singer-songwriter and guitarist Paul Simon thinks Elvis Presley wasted his "great talent" after 1957.
The 84-year-old music great was a huge fan of Presley during his younger years, but believes the king of rock and roll squandered his talent after 1957, when he started making teen-focused pop songs, like many other artists of that era.
"My early favourites were Elvis. Then came Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers," the 16-time Grammy winner told Alchemy with Anthony Mason.
"Those were the people I really loved."
Simon said the period between 1954 and 1957 had the biggest influence on his sound.
"When I first started to listen … as I look back and I do look back, for me the big years that influenced the sound that I still go for occasionally, it's like '54 to '57," he said.
