- "Bloated" Lisa Marie Gets Dissed by London Tabloid
(Memphis Flyer, December 8, 2007)
The London Daily Mail online posted a story today critiquing Lisa Marie Presley's appearance and compared her father Elvis' "bloated period." From the Daily Mail: Only last summer Miss Presley - who includes Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage among her four former husbands - appeared trim and fit.
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- Looking just like Dad (or why Elvis's girl must return to slender)
By TAHIRA YAQOOB
(Daily Mail, December 4, 2007))
It is one inheritance for which Lisa Marie Presley might not thank her illustrious father. At a New York charity event it appeared that the Elvis genes were beginning to kick in, with the once-svelte 39-year-old showing that she had piled on the pounds in recent months. Only last summer Miss Presley - who includes Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage among her four former husbands - appeared trim and fit. ...
- Oprah goes to New York for special sit-down with David
(freep.com, September 10, 2007)
"The Oprah Winfrey Show" (4 p.m., WXYZ-TV, Channel 7). The Big O kicks off her 22nd season with a special twist. The show heads to New York City to welcome late night chucklehead David Letterman for his first appearance on the daytime diva's conversational carnival. Lisa Marie Presley also joins Oprah for a special performance. Hey, Elvis, you got your TiVo programmed up there in Rock 'N' Roll Heaven?Oh that Bob! ...
- LISA MARIE UPSET ABOUT ELVIS VIAGRA THEME
(contactmusic.com, August 25, 2007)
LISA MARIE PRESLEY is fuming after learning her late father's VIVA LAS VEGAS hit is providing the theme to a new TV campaign for sex drug Viagra. Elvis croons the classic as part of the quirky Viva Viagra TV ad - suggesting even The King understood how frustrating erectile dysfunction can be. But the rocker's daughter is far from amused by the new ads for drug giants Pfizer. She says, "I find it revolting. Some songs we have no control over and I know we didn't license that one."
- Lisa Marie Presley, Dad duet on 'In the Ghetto'
(northjersey.com, August 19, 2007)
A new video of Lisa Marie Presley singing "In the Ghetto," accompanied by her late father, Elvis Presley, was posted Friday on the AOL Internet site Spinner.com, a company spokesman said.
To mark the 30th anniversary of her father's death, Lisa Marie Presley's voice was added to the original version of her father's hit song from 1969. The video duet also features images of her late father.
Spinner.com posted the video along with the transcript of an interview with Lisa Marie Presley, AOL spokesman Kurt Patat said. In the interview, Lisa Marie Presley said the project was emotionally stirring. "We had two hours to lay down my vocals," she says. "So the next morning, I heard the rough ... and ... I've never cried when I've done anything ... ever ... but I just lost it when I heard it."
Lisa Marie Presley also talks in the interview about how she was offended to see her father's song "Viva Las Vegas" used in a Viagra commercial. "I find that revolting," she said. "Some songs we have no control over. I know we didn't license that one."
Proceeds from the new song and video will be used to help build temporary housing for the homeless in New Orleans, she said. The project is to be similar to Presley Place, a 12-unit apartment building for the homeless built in Memphis by Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. in 2001. At the time, Elvis Presley Enterprises was owned by Lisa Marie Presley. She sold 85 percent of the company two years ago to CKX Inc., which now controls the worldwide business in marketing Elvis' name and image.
Elvis Presley died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on Aug. 16, 1977, and thousands of fans were in town last week for the 30th anniversary of his death.
Lisa Marie Presley, 39, attended a concert Thursday in Memphis that featured her father performing on video, with live support from his former backup singers and band members. Her most recent album of her own music was "Now What" in 2005, but she said in the interview that she hopes to put out a new album soon. "I'm definitely going to do it," she said. "I just have to figure out the right way. I'm on a clean slate right now -- I just got off my label (Capitol Records). So I'm figuring out my next route."
- Priscilla and Lisa Marie Dodge Paparazzi (and Catty Remarks)
By Michael Warner
(Memphis Flyer, July 14, 2007)
Uber video gossip site X-17 Online caught up with Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley as they were exiting Hollywood hotspot Little Door last night. They commented on the girls' plastic surgery and pointed that they "sure don't look their age." Is that a good thing? We're not sure. [Unflattering pictures and video.]
- Kerry checked on Scientology in secret
(chichester.co.uk, June 21, 2007)
BILLIONAIRE businessman Kerry Packer secretly investigated his son James' links to the Church of Scientology in the months before his death. The Daily Telegraph can reveal that the late Mr Packer arranged a private meeting with a high-ranking Australian religious official in mid-2005. Scientology and the basis of the cult-like Hollywood religion dominated the discussions.
The media mogul died on Boxing Day that year, handing full control of his $7 billion empire to James. "He was worried about Scientology - I don't think he believed in it at all," a source with intimate knowledge of the meeting said. "He was wanting to know whether it was sound and what it was all about." Close friend and prominent Scientologist Tom Cruise was among hundreds of high-profile guests at James' lavish wedding to model Erica Baxter on the French Riviera yesterday. James was introduced to Scientology by Cruise during the actor's ill-fated marriage to Nicole Kidman in the late 1990s.
James is believed to have found spiritual solace in the movement after the $1 billion One.Tel collapse in 2001 and in the wake of his split from wife Jodhi Meares 13 months later. James has never spoken publicly about his association with the organisation but has regularly attended sessions at its Sydney headquarters.
Ms Baxter also has flirted with the faith, which has forged a stronghold in Hollywood, where it boasts many high-profile followers including Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley, Lisa-Marie Presley and Mimi Rogers.
- The highs with mum were incredible but the lows were devastating
(chichester.co.uk, June 21, 2007)
Judy Garland was the best mother she knew how to be, says Lorna Luft, a performer who has long helped maintain her mother's legacy. Lorna is appearing at Chichester Festival Theatre in Babes In Arms, a musical closely associated with her mum, who appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1939 Busby Berkeley film version of the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart classic.
... "I was 16 when she died. I was at a girlfriend's house. Her mother came in and had to tell me. She didn't want me to turn the television on. I coped with it however you do cope with losing a parent, but the thing that made it harder for me was that I had to share that grief with everyone. I can't remember the exact number, but it was hundreds of thousands of people who came back to the funeral home. There were queues. It was quite stunning. "To this day, people come up to me and say my mother was their favourite and I get quite teary. I wind up taking care of them."
That was the irony. Lorna draws the parallel with Princes William and Harry after Princess Diana was killed. There was film of them greeting the crowds and one of them finding himself telling the crowds that everything would be okay. And it was the same experience for Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley. ...
- CHESNEY/CROW CONCERT POSTPONED
(Honolulu Advertiser, May 18, 2007)
Sorry, music fans. Last week's announcement about a giant concert featuring Kenny Chesney, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Marie Presley and others at the Waikiki Shell May 24 is superseded by this announcement: The concert has been postponed.
The event was to be a benefit for Narconon, the drug-rehab program associated with the Church of Scientology; and it was to be hosted by actors (and husband and wife team) John Travolta and Kelly Preston, who are members of Scientology. No further details about a new concert date or the final lineup of performers were available.
- Lisa Marie Presley, 39, tops today's list of celebrity birthdays
(ocregister.com, February 1, 2007)
She's Elvis Presley's only child and in recent years has pursued a music career of her own. Lisa Marie Presley is 39. ...
- Horoscope
By Jeraldine Saunders
(Mercury News.com / Tribune Media Services, February 1, 2007)
BIRTHDAY GAL: Singer Lisa Marie Presley was born in Memphis, Tenn., on this day in 1968. This daughter of music's legendary Elvis Presley has emerged as a star in her own right with her hit albums ``To Whom it May Concern'' and ``Now What.'' She's also stirred up her own tabloid fodder with short-lived marriages to pop star Michael Jackson and Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage. The King's daughter is a member of the Church of Scientology and supports several of its charities.
- Lisa Marie Presley, 39, tops today's list of celebrity birthdays
(Orange County Register, February 1, 2007)
She's Elvis Presley's only child and in recent years has pursued a music career of her own. Lisa Marie Presley is 39. Also celebrating [other celebrities]: ...
- Lisa Marie Presley is a Helpful Mom: An Elvis family threesome?
(Memphis Flyer, December 7, 2006)
Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough, is apparently dating singer (and Ashlee Simpson ex) Ryan Cabrera. But in pictures posted on PerezHilton.com, mother Lisa Marie gets into the act, too. Lisa Marie strokes Riley's hair - or maybe she's moving it out of the way of her mouth - as Riley and Cabrera make out.
Lisa Marie helps out.
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- Colleagues salute Cash in a new video tribute
By Glenn Gamboa
(Journal-Gazette, November 26, 2006)
It's an odd collection: Bono, Iggy Pop, Jay-Z, Kris Kristofferson, Justin Timberlake, the Dixie Chicks, Keith Richards, Lisa Marie Presley, Kanye West, Red Hot Chili Peppers and two dozen other stars. They all gathered to pay tribute to Johnny Cash in a new video for The Man in Black's "God's Gonna Cut You Down," from his No. 1 album "American V: A Hundred Highways" (American/Lost Highway).
The clip, directed by Tony Kaye, is dramatically shot in black and white, with each of the stars dressed in black and offering a salute to Cash, who died in 2003 of respiratory failure. And it is one of only a handful of videos ever to debut on MTV, VH1 and CMT on the same day. ...
- What's in a name? Plenty
By BRIAN McTAVISH
(Kansas City Star, October 18, 2006)
What does Lisa Marie Presley have that you don't? A ton of stuff, OK? Try not to be bitter. Still, there's probably nothing more valuable than the family name, which has enabled the only child of Elvis Presley to have a high-profile pop music career. Presley performs at 7 tonight at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrahıs Casino in North Kansas City. Tickets cost $23; call (816) 472-7777.
It's kind of like Barney the dinosaur. Take away the "Barney" and all you have is an overly polite purple lizard. With the name, you have an ongoing franchise that should attract loads of preschoolers to "Barney Live! The Let's Go Tour" at 7 tonight at Municipal Auditorium. Tickets cost $19 to $31; call (816) 931-3330.
Lisa Marie's take on the name game? "What this has always been about and what it will always be about is making my own way," Presley recently told the Asbury Park Press. "I'm not capitalizing on anything. I'm doing my own thing. That's what I'll always do." Just not as Lisa Marie Smith.
- PINK ADORES ELVIS GIFT FROM PRESLEY
(contactmusic.com, October 14, 2006)
Pop star PINK is madly in love with the her bulldog ELVIS because he was a special gift from ELVIS PRESLEY's daughter LISA MARIE. The STUPID GIRLS singer admits she goes overboard when it comes to her pampered pooch. She explains, "He only drinks bottled water. Lisa Marie Presley gave him to me. "Elvis is just an angel from God!" Pink claims she loves getting up close and personal with her pet adding, "Elvis likes to make out (kiss) when we first wake up!"
- Concert review: Lisa Marie Presley proves she's her own performer
By Peter Gilstrap
(Tennessean, October 12, 2006)
Let's face it . It's difficult - downright impossible - to watch Lisa Marie Presley onstage and not be reminded of the fact that that the woman before you is the issue of the loins of the King of Rock and Roll. In terms of judging her as an artist unto herself, that may not be fair (after all, no one expects Candice Bergen to wedge a ventriloquist dummy onto her lap and start doing comedy routines). Yet Lisa Marie is and forever will be part of the lore, part of the legend; the old man named his jet after her, for crying out loud. It doesn't help that the Toddler of Graceland looks so much like Elvis, yet it's all part of Presley's only child, multi-million dollar cross to bear.
During her appearance Wednesday night at City Hall, Presley was very much her own performer (though she did toss out a brief, genetically programmed lip-lifting sneer during her opening number, "I'll Figure It Out,"). She paced the stage clad in long black sleeves under a white T-shirt, plaid mini skirt, black leggings and Chuck Taylor high tops, a look that was more early Katrina (as in "and the Waves") than '06 power pop sex pot.
Which is not to say that the foxy mother of two didnıt cast a unique spell on the 300 or so devout followers who showed up to scream and mouth lyrics. Presley has the sultry, sassy demeanor of a truck stop waitress who serves up plenty of flirty lip and delicious attitude, which only makes you want to leave a bigger tip and ask her when she gets off because you're just passing through and, well, never mind.
For the entirety of the 14-song set comprised of material from her two albums (the singer has only been a singer officially since 2003's To Whom It May Concern; her sophomore album is Now What), Presley owned the crowd. To some ears, her music may be predictable, generic, guitar-driven pop, but let it be said that to the aural receptors at City Hall, it was cause for celebration. Between each number, there were constant screamed declarations of love from fans of both sexes, which Presley graciously and meticulously returned.
At times, the whole thing seemed more like a question-and-answer session than a momentum-driven juggernaut of rock, but who cared? When it comes to responding to the audience, happily, Miles Davis she's not. On this, her third appearance in Nashville, the singer fielded questions, handed out guitar picks, even shot a photo of a fan on the woman's cell phone camera, interesting, as fan photography of Presley herself was strictly verboten.
The anything-goes mood was set when, after the initial number, someone (allegedly show opener, wacky dorm room heart throb Ryan Cabrera) placed, as Presley put it, "something on the stage that does not belong here." Which was, in fact, a large black rubber phallus, complete with a handy suction cup on one end, which her guitar player used to attach to his Gibson.
Far from rattling her, Presley seemed to enjoy the moment, and dug right into the set. Her voice was in fine shape (with help from something she sprayed down her throat repeatedly), her husky lower ranged pipes proving a worthy compliment to songs like "Turbulence," "Idiot" and Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry."
Returning for strongly demanded encore, Presley seemed genuinely touched. "You really want me to come back. I could really feel that," she offered, and when she blew a kiss to the faithful, it seemed far more authentic than the one she planted on Michael Jackson so many years ago.
- MUSIC: DOING THINGS HER WAY - Lisa Marie Presley continues to pursue her own career
By ED CONDRAN
(Asbury Park Press, October 10, 2006)
When Lisa Marie Presley performed at The Stone Pony in July 2003, she had an epiphany. Presley realized that the crowd came out for her melodic pop-rock and didn't come to the show to catch Elvis Presley's daughter, Michael Jackson's ex-wife or another act that shared the bill with her. "I realized that I actually have my own fans," Presley said about her first headline gig. "I looked out at all these people and they were singing my songs right along with me. They knew the words. It's a lot more fun to play for people who are interested in your music, so I don't have to try to win over people who are sort of just in a spectator type of way sitting there just staring at me."
- Presley's way: Rocker says she stays true to her music
By ROD LOCKWOOD
(Toledo Blade, September 28, 2006)
Lisa Marie Presley performs tomorrow night in Club Bijou, 209 North Superior St. Doors open at 7:30 and the opening act is Toledoan Kari Nichole. Tickets, $26.50, are available at Ticketmaster outlets or www.ticketmaster.com.
Let's start with what you probably don't know about Lisa Marie Presley (and don't worry, we'll get to Michael Jackson, her dad, and some of that tabloid stuff soon enough):
- She spent the summer reading Beat writer Charles Bukowski for inspiration.
- Presley's a scrapper when it comes to the music biz, and she can sincerely say things like "Fort Wayne (Indiana) is a fun place to play" because that's where she's accustomed to playing. For example, her fall tour opens tomorrow at Toledo's Club Bijou, and she has the same complaints about lack of record company support as any musician.
- Finally, she can quickly work herself into an profanity-laced lather when asked about her ex-husband Jackson, especially the notorious kiss on the Video Music Awards in 1994, but she doesn't whine.
So get off her case.
"It's one of those things like, I don't like to say I have regrets but I definitely regret that time period," she said in a telephone conference call with about a dozen journalists. "And what are you going to (expletive) do, to be honest with you? You're young, you're stupid, and you're blinded, and you do something really dumb, and you can't ever live it down? How many people do that on their own and don't necessarily get it advertised? I know that was kind of enormous, but I'm just saying it's not something I'm proud of." Clearly exasperated, she wrapped up the answer with a question and a blunt demand. "What am I supposed to say at this point? Get over it. It was a long time ago and I made a mistake."
A candid, blunt interview subject who comes across as refreshingly honest and intelligent, Presley spent 45 minutes chatting about anything anyone asked as she prepared for an 18-date tour that ends in early November.
She's released two discs over the past three years - "To Whom It May Concern" and "Now What" - both of which have received a fair amount of critical accolades. Her music is guitar-dominated, tough-rocking singer/songwriter fare with highly personal lyrics. Think Alanis Morissette with a husky voice and penchant for anthemic rockers, a style of music that, unfortunately for the 38-year-old Presley, isn't in vogue right now.
"There's not a lot of female singer/songwriter rockers out there that are doing good. I've been watching for a year and I get the charts every Wednesday and it usually baffles me," she said. "It's pretty disappointing what happens every week. I'm going '(Expletive)', it's like they all have an anchor attached and everything just drops right now." She cited Tracy Chapman and Bonnie Raitt as current examples of women who put out good new music, only to have it tumble quickly off the charts.
Presley said she has been asked to do covers of songs by Elvis Presley, her famous father, but her tastes lean more toward punk rock, heavy metal, and folkier material, so it doesn't feel right to play her dad's music. "I'm kind of all about personal integrity and staying true to what you want to do. I have a big mountain to climb, obviously, and I don't think he would want me to do that, to be honest with you," she said. "I think he would understand and would not encourage that. That's the most honest I've ever answered that question."
Married to guitarist Michael Lockwood earlier this year and the mother of two children with a previous husband Danny Keough, Presley said she started her music career in 2003 unsure of herself, especially on stage. Now, she's a more confident performer and hopes to hone her music even more on the current tour before taking time to write songs for her third disc next year.
Don't expect to see her pandering for attention or cashing in on her father. "I'm quite happy with the fact that I've never done anything to violate my own artistic integrity," she said. "I've never sold out, I've never gone pop, never done all the things I could have done that would have been easy to get."
- Lisa Marie Presley stars in Viva Glam ad
By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
(Yahoo! News / AP, September 6, 2006)
Lisa Marie Presley, Debbie Harry, Eve and Dita Von Teese are the newest crop of unlikely makeup models in MAC Cosmetics' Viva Glam ad campaign. It's not just the spokesmodels who are unusual, it's also the product they promote: 100 percent of the sales of Viva Glam lipsticks and lip glosses are donated to HIV and AIDS programs, including treatment, education and daily necessities.
Presley said she agreed to participate in the campaign because of its fundraising efforts. "MAC is actually, honestly, really true blue about its charity," the 38-year-old singer - and daughter of Elvis Presley - told The Associated Press in a recent phone interview. "You can see it making headway. They've raised $70 million that's been used incredibly well. It's not a campaign full of fluff, and I'm not a fluff person." Presley said she's known Harry for several years and has crossed paths with Von Teese, but hadn't met Eve until the photo shoot a few weeks ago.
Even though she doesn't consider herself to be either a beauty expert or a model, she tried to put her best face on for the campaign, Presley said, because of the cause and the interesting and admirable group of women she was working with. "I think we're all reaching out in a different direction - whoever can reach a certain segment of the audience," she said.
So, who's her audience? "That's a complex question. Based on my fan base, it's 80 percent gay, young girls, bikers, women my age and then some occasional Elvis fans. It's an eclectic potpourri," she said with a laugh. "If I go to a signing or show, it's a rainbow." ...
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