United Kingdom, May 23 -- Paul Simon thinks Elvis Presley wasted his "great talent" after 1957.

The 84-year-old music star was a huge fan of Elvis during his younger years, but he believes the King of Rock and Roll squandered his talent after 1957, as he started to make teen-focused pop songs, like many other artists of that era.

He told Alchemy with Anthony Mason: "My early favourites were Elvis. Then came Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers. Those were the people I really loved."

Paul said the period between 1954 and 1957 had the biggest influence on his own sound.

He said: "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...