Yeah! I remember reading about this many years ago. I believe this really did happen - that ETs gravitate towards people that make a difference in the world - perhaps due to agreements made before they were born. There are numerous cases of famous musicians having UFO encounters. Robbie Williams is the most recent example. He became a member of abovetopsecret.com to openly discuss his experiences, I too am a member there and RW was quite frank and open about everything.. and he was hoping to learn from everyone else on there too.
I remember Bob Welch (famous for his 70s hit 'Ebony Eyes', as well as a key member of Fleetwood Mac prior to 'Rumours'), was a supporter of Steven Greer's 'Disclosure Project'.
Here's an account of Olivia Newton-John's UFO encounter when she was a teenager -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/6229607/Olivia-Newton-John-claims-to-have-seen-UFO.htmlElvis Presley was also obsessed with UFOs and used to see them all the time. Apparently he carried something like 350 UFO books with him but the Colonel tried to have them burned in a bonfire. Elvis was reportedly contacted by 2 aliens when he was 8 and telepathically given a glimpse into his singing future. And on the night Elvis was born, his father noticed a blue light hovering in the sky above their home in Tupelo. You can read more about it here -
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/08/16/a-not-so-suspicious-mind-elvis-was-obsessed-with-ufos/It's a very interesting subject and the encounters happened too often for these artists to be half-baked at the time! Or maybe they were trippin' out.. based on my own research and personal friends who have had encounters, I think there is definitely something out there watching us. In another dimension perhaps, who knows!