In the insensate wintertime Memphis air, on the face lawn of the world’s to the highest degree famous stone n’ flap residence, the fellowship and famous friends of Lisa Marie Presley gathered on Lord's Day morn to lay her to rest. Presley, the only when shaver of Elvis Presley, died of cardiac arrest on Jan. 12 at age 54.
Lisa Marie’s festivity of lifespan – livestreamed past Graceland.com – included reminiscences from Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson and musical theater performances by Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, and Alanis Morrissette.
Ferguson, who befriended Lisa Maria after they met inwards 2009, quoted the late queen, saying: “My late mother-in-law used to say that zip can live said tin begin to take away the torment and the hurt of these moments because heartbreak is the damage we make up for love. And how right she was.”
Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla Presley, scan a poem written past her granddaughter, Riley Keough.
“The old psyche inward 1968, she entered our mankind — born strong but was delicate, filled with life,” Priscilla read. “She always knew she wouldn’t live here too long. Childhood passes by in the glimpse of a greenness eye. She so grew a sept of her own. She so lost her 2d child, an backer of suspicion…she knew it was close to the end. Survivor’s guilt, but a crushed nerve was the doing of her death. My nerve is missing her love. She knew that i loved her. The older soulfulness is always with me.”
Speaking for herself, the 77-year-old grieving fuss so added: “Our Black Maria are broken. Lisa we all sexual love you.”
Talent manager Jerry Schilling – a former fellow member of Elvis’ Memphis Sicilian Mafia – was the adult male who walked Lisa Marie push down the reddish carpet into the Golden Globes on Jan. 10. It was Schilling’s fortify that Lisa Marie latched onto for support. Schilling, who called Lisa Marie by the soubriquet “Memphis,” recalled their 1st encounter – when he was handed her by Elvis and prayed not to fall the infant – and his last.
“As i was inwards the hospital with her begetter when Priscilla was gift birth, I was at the infirmary with her overprotect when she left us,” Schilling said. “Memphis, I testament e'er enjoy you.”
Musical Tributes
Corgan, who collaborated on a Lisa Marie strain called “Savior” in 2003, performed an acoustical interpretation of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1999 ballad, “To Shiela.” Morrissette performed her 2021 song, “Rest.” And Rose performed GN’R’s 1991 ballad, “November Rain.”
“I ne'er inwards a zillion years imagined existence here, singing under these circumstances,” Rose said. “I ut cognize Lisa loved her household rattling much, and was fiercely protective of her male parent and his legacy.”
Lisa Marie Laid to Rest
Following the service, attendees were taken inner Graceland to look at Lisa Marie’s body, which they were asked non to photograph or video, as per the family’s wishes. In the private portion of the ceremony, Lisa Marie was and then laid to eternal sleep inward the meditation garden behindhand Graceland, next to her son, Benjamin – who died past suicide at age 27 – and her father, Elvis Presley, who died of a spunk aggress in 1977, when Lisa Marie was just 9.
Lisa Marie – who inherited Graceland on her 25th birthday – wheel spoke nigh the garden during an question with Playboy mag in 2003.
“How many people have got a family unit solemn inwards the backyard?” she said. “How many people are reminded of their fate, of their mortality, every f**king day? “All the graves are seamed upwardly and there’s a bit there, waiting for me.”
Lisa Marie Presley’s trio daughters – Riley, 33, and 14-year-old twins Finley and Harper – are expected to inherit Graceland through a trust.
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