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Riley Keough Helps Mom Lisa Marie Presley Emerge From Elvis' Shadow

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. In From Here to the Great Unknown, actor Riley Keough details her mother's unusual life in Graceland. She also talks about grief and her own time at Neverland Ranch.

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I'm Tanya Mosley.

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A few years before she died, Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis, decided to write a memoir.

0:33.6

Now this was a big deal because for most of her life

0:36.4

Presley lived in her father's shadow.

0:38.9

And for years she'd tell people she thought her life wasn't interesting enough to fill a book.

0:43.0

Well, after years of chronicling on her own, Presley asked her daughter Riley to help her finish

0:48.2

what she had documented. A month later, at the age of 54, Presley died, and Riley made the decision to complete what her

0:56.0

mother started by finishing the book. It's titled From Here to The Great Unknown,

1:01.9

a lyric from the song

1:03.2

Where No One Stands Alone, featured on a 2018

1:06.6

compilation album of Lisa Marie singing duets

1:09.7

with archival recordings of her father's favorite gospel songs.

1:14.0

Oh, my hand man, all the way,

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every young, every day from here from here to great. Every day.

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