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"Lisa Marie Presley was one of the most talked about, argued over, dissected And cruelly inspected women in modern American life. The only daughter Of One of the most famous American who ever lived, [...]." –The Ireland edition of Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir summary."

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Riley Keough announces tour for Lisa Marie Presley's memoir

Riley Keough has announced a book tour in honour of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley, whose memoir will release this October.
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"Now, Keough has announced a book tour in support of From Here To The Great Unknown, which will see her pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley. For the tour, she will also be joined by currently unnamed special guests at each of the tour stops.

The tour will take place across six dates in October, with stops in New York, Graceland, St. Louis, Nashville, London and Los Angeles."

 
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“I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.”

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"Riley Keough’s eclectic acting career – she’s popped up in everything from Magic Mike to Mad Max: Fury Road – can make you forget she’s Elvis Presley’s granddaughter. But she is, and she’s helped complete the memoir of her mother, Elvis’ daughter Lisa Marie Presley. For years, Lisa Marie had been recording anecdotes of her life – visiting her father at Graceland; short-lived marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage – on tape. In 2022, just a month before her death aged 54, she asked Keough to compile them into a book. The result is a deeply revealing and personal look at one of America’s most famous and tragic families."

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bluemoon7 said:
Oh dear :-(
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Let's hope for the best. After all, Riley knew MJ from a young age and definitely won't say a bad word about him.
“My whole childhood was probably very extreme. In hindsight, I can see how crazy these things would be to somebody from the outside. But when you’re living in them, it’s just your life and your family. You just remember the love, and I had real love for Michael,” Riley said of Jackson while speaking with Vanity Fair.“I think he really got a kick out of being able to make people happy, in the most epic way possible, which I think he and my grandfather had in common,” she added, before comparing her time at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch with grandfather Elvis’s Graceland estate.“Which one did I like better? I spent more time at Neverland than Graceland, to be honest,” she shared. “That was a real home, whereas Graceland was a museum in my lifetime.”
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Riley Keough Reveals Bittersweet Process to Finish Mom Lisa Marie Presley's Memoir (Exclusive)

Riley Keough "burst into tears" while listening to the tapes her late mom Lisa Marie Presley had left behind to complete her memoir, 'From Here to the Great Unknown'
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"Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected,” Riley, 35, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive email interview for this week's cover story. “What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was. To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life. I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive.

In the years before she died, my mother, Lisa Marie Presley, began writing her memoir. Though she tried various approaches, and sat for many book interviews, she couldn’t figure out how to write about herself. She didn’t find herself interesting, even though, of course, she was. She didn’t like talking about herself. She was insecure. She wasn’t sure what her value to the public was other than being Elvis’s daughter. She was so wracked with self-criticism that working on the book became incredibly difficult for her. I don’t think she fundamentally understood how or why her story should be told.

The early parts of the book are mostly her voice — in the tapes she speaks at length about her Graceland childhood, the death of her father [in 1977, when Lisa Marie was 9], the dreadful aftermath, her relationship with her mother, her difficult teen years. She’s frank and funny about my father, Danny Keough. She talks openly about her relationship with Michael Jackson. She’s painfully candid about her later drug addiction and about the perils of fame."

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Lisa Marie Presley Recalls Sweet Memory With Elvis In New Posthumous Memoir | 95.7 The Jet

'Then my dad showed up...'
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"In the highly-anticipated memoir, Presley details a dislike for the limelight, while simultaneously enjoying the unmatched "electricity" of her father's shows. The singer also elaborated on beautiful moments with Elvis as a child, zooming in on a parent-teacher conference he attended at a her school.

"In Los Angeles I went to school at John Thomas Dye, up in the hills of Bel Air. I still sometimes drive by it just to remember the day my dad came to a parent-teacher conference. I knew he was coming, and I couldn’t wait. I could feel the teachers’ nervousness and excitement, too. My little student friends were so excited that I got even more excited — everybody was just running around crazy."

Presley continued:

"Then my dad showed up. He got out of the car and he had on a respectable outfit — black pants and some kind of blouse — but he was also wearing a big, majestic belt with buckles and jewels and chains, as well as sunglasses. He was smoking a cigar. I met him at the car, and I walked up the walkway with him, and I just remember that feeling of walking next to him, holding his hand."

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“I felt honestly more comfortable being with someone who was as famous, or more famous, than me. Because it took the pressure off me and I could feel like a female for the first time - like a regular female, not some female who has balls and who runs everything.”
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"Just days ago, Riley Keough was in Memphis when she got a call from @CHANEL: How would she feel about flying to Paris and performing at the house’s spring/summer 2025 show—and doing it while dangling above the models on a makeshift swing? Keough’s response: “Why would I say no to that kind of thing?” Watch the actress take us through the making of her instantly iconic performance of #Prince’s “When Doves Cry” at the Grand Palais!

Visit http://bit.ly/4euJxhm to read more about how it all came together.

Repost: Riley Keough & @ELLEmagazine"


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librariangirl:) said:
That's disappointing :(
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Yeah, wasn't happy that popped up online. Presumably Riley knows the whole story but maybe the PR team at her publisher insisted. She's a first time author, maybe you just can't raise objections when that's the case?
 
zinniabooklover said:
Yeah, wasn't happy that popped up online. Presumably Riley knows the whole story but maybe the PR team at her publisher insisted. She's a first time author, maybe you just can't raise objections when that's the case?
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Yeah, maybe... but if someone truly cared about MJ and had any integrity, they would avoid that woman.
 
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“…the best new books for Autumn.” - The Standard

- From Here to the Great Unknown :

“The Presleys are American royalty and this posthumously published memoir from Elvis’s only daughter is set to occupy the same space Britney Spears’s memoir did last year.”

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The biggest reveals in Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, from Elvis to Michael Jackson

Lisa Marie Presley's raw memoir \
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He’d chastely kissed Tatum O’Neal and Brooke Shields, and “he said Madonna had tried to hook up with him once, too, but nothing happened,” Lisa Marie wrote.


"I was terrified, because I didn't want to make the wrong move. When he decided to first kiss me, he just did it. He was instigating everything. The physical stuff started happening, which I was shocked at. I had thought that maybe we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting!’ “

Lisa Marie recalls their early time together as idyllic: honeymooning in Orlando and going to Disney World every other day. “I was actually so happy,” she writes. “I’ve never been that happy again.”

“There was an energy there, something about him that was truly remarkable, something that I’ve never ever seen or felt in my entire life, other than with my dad. … I fell in love with him because he was normal.”

As for the allegations of child molestation? “I never saw a goddamn thing like that. I personally would’ve killed him if I had.”


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The standout line so far, writing about getting married to Michael ...

“I was actually so happy. I’ve never been that happy again.”

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