Lisa Marie Presley’s Life Marked by Tragedy and Fame

Lisa Marie Presley’s life marked by tragedy and fame

Singer Lisa Marie Presley's life was marked by tragedy. She was only nine years old when her father, the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley, died. She dropped out of high school and fell into a drug addiction. She married four times, and her son died when he was only 27. Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, in Memphis, exactly nine months after the wedding of her parents, Priscilla and Elvis Presley. She grew up on her father's esta…

“I still keep my watch two hours behind.” — Lisa Marie Presley

It’s her birthday today. Her absence still seems a little unreal. My reaction to her untimely death was so strong – and had nothing whatsoever to do with her dad, but with my own experience of her presence in the culture – an experience which seemed generational in nature – and all of this felt like a unique phenomenon … one I had never thought about, actually, until she died, so I tried to put into words. I launched my Substack with it. I was i…