Axl Rose, Billy Corgan, and Alanis Morissette had been among the many artists to pay musical tributes to Lisa Marie Presley on the Graceland public memorial service Sunday for the late daughter of Elvis, who died Jan. 12 on the age of 54.
“I by no means in 1,000,000 years imagined being right here, singing underneath these circumstances,” Rose mentioned previous to his efficiency. “I do know Lisa beloved her household very a lot, and was fiercely protecting of her father and his legacy.”
Rose carried out a solo rendition of Weapons N’ Roses’ “November Rain” for his shut buddy Presley.
“I’ll miss my buddy Lisa. Her passing, simply as her son’s, or as a child, her father’s, doesn’t appear actual,” he says. “Lisa beloved her household, all her kids. My coronary heart goes out to them,” Rose beforehand mentioned in an announcement to Individuals following Presley’s loss of life. “Her son’s passing was surprising, tragic and devastating. It was one thing that, at some extent, you clearly didn’t wish to carry up however awkwardly would in an effort to let her know you cared and had been interested by her, about them, and to be of any consolation one might, which she appreciated.”
Presley shall be laid to relaxation subsequent to her son Benjamin, who died by suicide on the age of 27. Rose added that following Benjamin’s loss of life, he and Presley would commerce “jokes, information articles and plenty of animal vids” to “let her know of the fixed interested by her, them, and wanting the perfect for her.”
Corgan was the primary performer on the memorial, delivering an acoustic rendition of the Smashing Pumpkins ballad “To Sheila.”
“There may be heartbreak after which there may be sorrow. This could be sorrow and on extra ranges than I can depend,” Corgan wrote on social media following information of Presley’s loss of life. “Please ship your prayers out for her household and youngsters at this troublesome time. I actually can’t discover the phrases to precise how unhappy this really is.”
Like Rose, Presley leaned on Corgan following her son’s suicide; the 2 beforehand collaborated on Presley’s track “Savior” in 2003.
Following a speech by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, Morissette, accompanied by a pianist, carried out her track “Relaxation,” which the singer beforehand debuted on the memorial service for Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington. Morissette penned the track “for these of us who battle with despair and nervousness, isolation, suicidal ideation and the profound despair that psychological sickness can plunge us into.”
Presley’s public memorial additionally included remembrances by Elvis affiliate Jerry Schilling, her mom Priscilla Presley and a word to Lisa Marie written by her daughter Riley Keough and skim by Keough’s husband Ben Smith-Petersen.
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