Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla, sang about the burial plot waiting for her at Graceland, a place synonymous with her dad's legend — and ongoing heartbreak.
"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," her mother, Priscilla Presley, said in a statement, hours after her eldest child had been hospitalized, having reportedly suffered cardiac arrest at home. "She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss.
Per Peter Guralnick's 2012 biography "Careless Love," Elvis later talked about his late brother serving as his conscience, having first started hearing what he thought was Jesse's voice when he was 4 or 5 years old telling him to"care for other people, to put himself in their place, to see their point of view, to love them."
When his recording career started to take off, Elvis made sure that neither parent wanted for anything, eventually moving them right into Graceland when he bought the eight-bedroom mansion in 1957. Gladys died on Aug. 14 at the age of 46. She suffered a fatal heart attack, with liver failure caused by chronic alcoholism cited as a contributing factor.
When Vernon married Dee Stanley on July 3, 1960, Elvis was not in attendance — though he entrusted his father and stepmother to help look out for his future bride when she moved to Memphis to finish high school. Priscilla had met Vernon in Germany, Elvis' dad going everywhere he went, per Gladys' wishes.
Priscilla was 22 when she married Elvis on May 1, 1967, in Las Vegas. Lisa Marie was born exactly nine months later.
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