Axl Rose ‘still in shock’ over Lisa Marie Presley’s death – Fakazakamp

Axl Rose has paid tribute to the late Lisa Marie Presley with a efficiency at her memorial.

The Weapons N’ Roses frontman took to the stage at a Sunday memorial service at Graceland, Tennessee, remembering the late Lisa Marie Presley.

Lisa died on 12 January after struggling an obvious cardiac arrest. She was 54.

Axl Rose – whose actual title is William Bruce Rose Jr – honoured the late You Ain’t Seen Nothing But singer with a solo rendition of his band’s hit November Rain. Earlier than starting the music, William shared an announcement on Lisa’s dying.

“With Lisa’s passing, I knew if I used to be invited I wanted to return to those ceremonies,” he started, through Fakazakamp. “I hadn’t deliberate on talking, and after I was placed on the spot, I actually didn’t know what to say. I used to be tongue-tied and nervous, and I didn’t actually know what I mentioned.”

He continued, “I, as I’m positive a lot of you, are nonetheless in shock, as I really feel I’ll proceed to be for fairly a while… I by no means in 1,000,000 years imagined being right here, singing below these circumstances.”

William additionally spoke of how “fiercely protecting” Lisa was of her father Elvis Presley’s legacy.

“She was extraordinarily proud, as proud as anybody might be, of her father and his many accomplishments and place in music,” he defined. “She was additionally very happy with the Elvis film and the way she felt it portrayed her father, and the care that was put into the movie by these concerned – (director Baz Luhrmann’s) imaginative and prescient and route, and Austin Butler’s dedication to the function of her father.”