Elvis Presley

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'We all love you': Lisa Marie Presley honored during service at ... (The Commercial Appeal)

Friends, family and fans of Lisa Marie Presley gathered at Graceland in Memphis to pay tribute to the singer and only daughter of Elvis Presley.

She was the image of a king," he said. He said Lisa Marie was an “innocent child” thrust into a life where the footsteps she had to follow were far too large. The film was [widely praised by the Presley family](https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/05/26/elvis-premiere-cannes-film-festival-reviews-baz-luhrmann-austin-butler/9941645002/), including Lisa Marie, who said it was a representation of her father she and her children could be proud of. The garden is also the final resting place of "In The Garden" played as Lisa Marie's family emerged out of the front door of the mansion prior to the service. [Elvis in the 2022 biopic about the rock star](https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/06/12/elvis-movie-graceland-tom-hanks-austin-butler-baz-luhrmann-memphis/7487735001/), which was directed by Luhrmann. She provided a bright spot for the city, then and throughout her 54 years of life. Because grief is the price we pay for love.' And how right she was," Ferguson said. Jerry Schilling, a longtime associate of Elvis and friend of the Presley family, said he visited Graceland for Christmas of 1967. Lisa Marie ― whom he called Memphis ― worked as his assistant and he officiated one of her weddings. Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world." Lisa Marie had long been a living link to Elvis for devoted fans of The King, who doted on his only child.

Lisa Marie Presley Gets Royal Tribute at Graceland (The New York Times)

MEMPHIS — An hour before a gospel choir kicked off the funeral for Lisa Marie Presley on the broad lawn of Graceland, Kathy Chandler, the owner of a ...

Corgan, playing acoustic guitar, delivered a gentle version of the Smashing Pumpkins song “To Sheila.” The Duchess of York said that she and Ms. Rose sang his band’s 1992 hit “November Rain,” and said that with the suicide of Ms. Presley’s son, her life “took a turn down a hard road,” forcing her to seek help in dealing with grief, and prompting her to help others suffering from it. Presley used to call each other “Sissy,” and directed words of consolation to Ms. Ms. Presley’s service, the sea of mourners was cordoned off to the side of the Graceland lawn. The death of Ms. Presley four years before his death, and the film director Baz Luhrmann, who scored a hit last year with “Elvis.” That frenetic biopic made a case for Elvis’s enduring cultural impact while wrestling with his appropriation of Southern Black music, an act of love and theft that crashed the barriers of a segregated country like a rock through a plate-glass window. Presley’s birth was an important bright spot for Memphis in 1968, the same year the Rev. On numerous occasions a wave of cellphones went up in unison to capture footage of the friends and family who gathered for the service under a tent in front of the mansion. Among the mourner-performers were Alanis Morissette, Axl Rose of the band Guns N’ Roses and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins. And on Sunday, her memorial service showed how this more democratized concept of royalty, arguably perfected by Americans, has moved ever closer to the more traditional kind: Not only did Mr.

Mourners bid farewell to Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter (Terrace Standard)

More than a thousand people gathered in Memphis to pay their respects Sunday.

“She was born into the public, born into fame. She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home. “I’m a product of your heart.” Clark said Lisa Marie “went through a lot” in her life and equated the service to the time when Elvis died, when “people came from all over.” The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977 at age 42.

Lisa Marie Presley mourned in Graceland memorial service (The Straits Times)

Singers Alanis Morissette, Billy Corgan and Axl Rose performed. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Earlier that day, she had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital after [reportedly suffering cardiac arrest at her home.](https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/lisa-marie-presley-rushed-to-hospital-after-cardiac-arrest-tmz) [Lisa Marie Presley was buried there before the memorial service](https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/lisa-marie-presley-to-be-laid-to-rest-at-graceland) alongside the grave of her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020 at age 27, a death ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner. She was the only child of one of the greatest stars in American music, and was nine years old when Elvis Presley died of heart failure at age 42, in 1977, at Graceland. [Lisa Marie Presley died on Jan 12](https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/lisa-marie-presley-only-child-of-elvis-dies-aged-54-after-reported-cardiac-arrest) at the age of 54. [actor Austin Butler won the best actor award for portraying her father in the film Elvis.](https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/golden-globes-austin-butler-wins-best-drama-actor-for-elvis) MEMPHIS, Tennessee – Hundreds of mourners gathered at Graceland on Sunday to pay their respects to singer Lisa Marie Presley in a memorial service at the Memphis, Tennessee, mansion she inherited from her father, rock legend Elvis Presley.

An Inside Look at Elvis Presley's Iconic Graceland Estate (NBC 10 Philadelphia)

Purchased by Elvis Presley in 1957, Memphis' Graceland has become one of the world's most famous homes and will serve as the final resting place for his ...

She has been instrumental in keeping the estate up and running as a tourist destination and her ex one of the highest-earning deceased celebrities of all time. Complete with a waterfall, wooden walls, a grass shag carpet and plastic foliage, fans began calling it "the Jungle Room" when Graceland was opened to public visitors in 1982. The specific items to be stored in the Graceland kitchen at all times included a case of Pepsi, steak, hamburger buns, cans of sauerkraut, wieners, at least six cans of biscuits, brownies, banana pudding, lean bacon, mustard, ice cream, fudge cookies, brownies, and assorted fresh fruit. It was named to the American National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Graceland will also serve as the location for Lisa Marie's final resting place, a rep for Riley confirmed to E! 22, [10 days after she passed away](https://www.eonline.com/news/1361252/lisa-marie-presley-dead-at-54) at the age of 54. Lisa Marie took complete ownership of the home when she turned 25 in February 1993. "I realized as it was going on that there really wasn't any money that could support Graceland or any of the people that worked for Elvis that were still there," Priscilla told "Billboard" in 2012. [Lisa Marie Presley](https://www.eonline.com/news/lisa_marie_presley), the only daughter of [Elvis Presley](https://www.eonline.com/news/elvis_presley) will be laid to rest at the singer's iconic mansion on Jan. The 14-acre grounds serve as the final resting place for Elvis, who died of a heart attack at his beloved home, his parents Vernon and Gladys Presley, and Lisa Marie's son Benjamin Keough, 40 years later, Graceland has been visited by more than 23 million people and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006. The singer paid $102,500 for the property, which already had its famous moniker.

Graceland memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis (FRANCE 24)

Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley, has been laid to rest at the family's legendary Tennessee home ...

She was Elvis's only child. She previously controlled Elvis Presley Enterprises, but sold the bulk of shares in the company to a private equity firm in 2005. Crowds lined up at dawn in Memphis to pay tribute to the singer who died on January 12 at age 54, after she was rushed to hospital for cardiac arrest.