Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N' Roses and a native of Lafayette, performed at the funeral of Lisa Marie Presley Sunday.
Axl Rose Delivers Heartfelt Speech, Performs 'November Rain' at Lisa Marie Presley's Graceland Memorial Service. Billy Corgan and Alanis Morissette were among other musical performers at the gathering.
Axl Rose has revealed that Lisa Marie Presley asked him to play 'November Rain' in the event of her death. The Guns N' Roses frontman was among a host of musicians who paid tribute to the late singer during her public memorial earlier this week.
"I will miss my friend Lisa," Rose said in an exclusive statement to People. "Her passing, just as her son's, or as a kid, her father's, doesn't seem real. Lisa loved her family, all her children. My heart goes out to them." (Presley's son, Benjamin, died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.)
Members of Elvis's family, including his father Vernon Presley and his stepbrother Rick Stanley, have acknowledged Ginger Alden's presence at the funeral.
Meet Elvis Presley's last love Ginger Alden: the only person the King of Rock 'n' Roll proposed to apart from Priscilla, the former beauty queen was just 20 when she found him dead.
Jackie Kahane gave the eulogy at Elvis's funeral. He was a comedian that opened up for Elvis many, many times when he was playing in Vegas. He was also the person that announced the famous phrase – “Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.” Kahane passed away in March 2001.
Guns N' Roses rocker Axl Rose is remembering his close friend Lisa Marie Presley after her sudden death at age 54. The "Sweet Child O' Mine" singer, 60, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement that losing Presley still feels surreal.
8., Lisa Marie said she was "overwhelmed" by the Elvis movie, for which Butler won a Golden Globe for Best Actor (Drama). "I just want to thank you for coming," Lisa Marie said alongside Butler, daughter Riley Keogh and the film's director, Baz Luhrmann.
“I do want to take a moment to let you know that I have seen Baz Luhrmann's movie 'Elvis' twice now, and let me tell you that it is nothing short of spectacular,” she wrote. “Absolutely exquisite. Austin Butler channeled and embodied my father's heart and soul beautifully.
According to People, Lisa Marie's three daughters – actor Riley Keough, 33, and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood, 14 – will inherit Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the sole heir to her father's estate, which she assumed in 1980 after Elvis Presley's death in 1977.
Lisa Marie was just 9 years old when she saw the dead body of her father Elvis Presley on the night of August 16, 1977. The memory would have a lasting effect on the girl, who recalls the last time she saw The King alive was when he kissed her goodnight at their Graceland home.
On September 3, 2009, Lisa Marie attended Michael Jackson's funeral with nearly 200 of his closest friends and family members.
Axl Rose Sings November Rain at Lisa Marie Presley Funeral - YouTube.
Among the performers at the ceremony were Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose, who delivered a solo rendition of Guns N' Roses' “November Rain.” “I'm sure many of you are still in shock as I feel," Rose said prior to his performance.
'My heart is completely shattered for Riley, Finley, Harper and Priscilla at the tragic and unexpected loss of Lisa Marie,' Butler said. 'I am eternally grateful for the time I was lucky enough to be near her bright light and will forever cherish the quiet moments we shared.
Although they certainly had a raucous time together out in the world, Elvis ensured he maximised his quality time alongside his beloved daughter. "They had their father-daughter private times, he would play with her and they talked," Danny remembers from his time at Graceland. "He loved when he had Lisa."
But not everything in the film is entirely true to life. Having to compile four decades of life into a two-hour and 39-minute run time made for many details of Presley's career to blur together, while some were fictionalized entirely for the sake of entertainment.
Jerry Schilling's tender friendship with the King is a core component of his identity, but his story wouldn't mean much if he wasn't a fascinating character in his own right. In this interview, he goes deep on how Elvis Presley irrevocably shaped him.
Lisa Marie Presley's mother, Priscilla Presley gave her remembrances during the ceremony. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and Jerry Schilling, Lisa Marie's former manager, also spoke during the service.
On July 11, 1954, Jerry Schilling was Elvis' best friend for 23 years after they played football together in Memphis. At the age of 12, Schilling went on to become part of Elvis' entourage, a business associate, and a long-time friend, all while growing up in Memphis.
Nancy did not attend Elvis' funeral eight years later. “Please don't come; it's going to be impossible,” Joe Esposito told her when she called Graceland that day. “Stay home.”
The King's middle name was in honor of his father's friend Aaron Kennedy, but the Presleys used the Aron spelling to match the middle name of Elvis' stillborn identical-twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley. Even so, Aaron is the spelling on the Graceland grave site.
Elvis Presley's last love is paying her respects to his daughter Lisa Marie Presley. Ginger Alden, Presley's former fiancée and final companion who found him dead in his bathroom in 1977, penned a tribute to the King of Rock and Roll's daughter, whom she had known for a short time before Elvis' untimely death.