Metallica were ‘banned from looking at Sir Mick Jagger’ when they supported The Rolling Stones

Metallica were allegedly told ‘not to look’ at Sir Mick Jagger when they supported The Rolling Stones in 2005.

The heavy metal legends were the special guests at two of the rock’n’roll band’s concerts at Oracle Park in San Francisco.

There, a personal assistant allegedly told the Nothing Else Matters rockers to not make any eye contact or talk to the 79-year-old music icon.

Speaking on an episode of the podcast ‘Club Random with Bill Maher’, drummer and co-founder Lars Ulrich recalled: ‘So we’re sitting backstage, and – and this is in no way a judgment on the Stones, this is really more about us.

‘At one point a personal assistant or whatever comes and says, “Mick Jagger’s gonna walk through here in a couple minutes, he’s going over to his private gym in his truck, and he’s going to warm up before the show. 

Disappointed: Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich (second from right) wasn’t allowed to acknowledge his hero

‘When he walks through here, please don’t make eye contact with him or talk to him.”‘

He continued: ‘We’re sitting there going “what?!”‘ 

Mega Stones fan Lars was devastated that he couldn’t speak to his hero and was only allowed a photo opportunity with Mick and co before going on stage.

He said: ‘I had dreams, like, I thought, we’re gonna play with The Rolling Stones and you know where I’m gonna spend my whole time, is in Keith Richards hotel room, sitting at one of those legendary parties ’til nine o’clock in the morning. 

‘I’ll be the last one to leave! It wasn’t exactly like that.’

The 59-year-old sticksman insisted it couldn’t be more different for support acts at Metallica’s shows.

He added: ‘I always go and say hello to our support act: I look them in the eye, I ask them if there’s anything they need. 

‘It’s a human thing; if somebody comes out and plays on a Metallica stage I want them to feel at home.’

Superstars: The Rolling Stones are pictured in 2005. Pictured L to R: Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, and Keith Richards

Stones crushing: Tina Turner, now 83, says she has ‘always had a crush on Mick Jagger’; the pair pictured performing at the Live Aid Concert in July 1985 in Philadelphia

However, other A-list stars who toured with The Stones have had more positive experiences. 

In fact, Tina Turner – who joined them in 1966 – recently admitted that she ‘always had a crush on’ Sir Mick and loved the touring experience.

Now, at 83 and living with her husband in Switzerland, Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) said in a new interview with The Guardian: ‘I always had a crush on Mick Jagger. I loved when we toured with the Rolling Stones.’

Turner has always gravitated to rockers like Jagger and David Bowie, but in an interview with Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail in June 2017 she insisted her relationships with the two superstar frontmen were always platonic, calling them ‘the brothers that I never had’.

‘We never slept together; and they never came on to me, because I think they saw me as a role model in some kind of way,’ she went on to reveal.