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Lisa Marie Presley's Public Memorial Service Details Revealed
Graceland is welcoming different angel.
Lisa Marie Presley, the lone girl of Elvis Presley will beryllium laid to remainder astatine the singer's iconic mansion connected Jan. 22, 10 days aft she passed away astatine the property of 54. Ahead of her burial, the grounds of the superstar's Memphis location will beryllium opened for a nationalist memorial service honoring the singer-songwriter and ma of four, a typical for her eldest girl Riley Keough confirmed to E! News, noting that she, 14-year-old sisters Harper and Finley Lockwood and Lisa Marie's mom Priscilla Presley "are grateful for the support, well-wishes and outpouring of emotion honoring their beloved Lisa Marie."
Following Elvis' decease successful 1977 astatine the property of 42 and his begetter Vernon Presley's passing successful 1982, Priscilla made a akin determination to unfastened Graceland to the public, turning the spot into a destination for fans of the King of Rock 'N' Roll. The 14-acre grounds service arsenic the last resting spot for Elvis, who died of a bosom onslaught astatine his beloved home, his parents Vernon and Gladys Presley, and Lisa Marie's lad Benjamin Keough, who died by termination successful 2020 astatine property 27.
The determination to let the nationalist to sojourn Graceland stemmed from the precocious property and inheritance taxes Elvis' household were facing aft his death, with Priscilla yet making the determination not to merchantability the property.
"I realized arsenic it was going connected that determination truly wasn't immoderate wealth that could enactment Graceland oregon immoderate of the radical that worked for Elvis that were inactive there," Priscilla told Billboard successful 2012. "I had determination to marque to someway prevention Graceland."
40 years later, Graceland has been visited by much than 23 cardinal radical and was declared a National Historic Landmark successful 2006. Ahead of Lisa Marie's memorial, spell wrong the iconic property and larn immoderate facts astir 1 of the world's most-visited homes:
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Elvis Presley was conscionable 22 years aged erstwhile helium bought his Graceland location successful Memphis, Tenn., connected March, 25, 1957. The vocalist paid $102,500 for the property, which already had its celebrated moniker. The home's erstwhile owners Dr. Thomas Moore and his woman Ruth named the mansion aft Ruth's aunt, Grace Toof, erstwhile they physique the Colonial Revival benignant location successful 1939.
Sadly, the fable died of a bosom onslaught astatine Graceland connected Aug. 16, 1977, erstwhile helium was lone 42.
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In the aftermath of Lisa Marie Presley's decease astatine property 54 connected Jan. 12, Graceland will beryllium inherited by her three daughters—Riley Keough and Harper and Finley Lockwood—a typical for Graceland confirmed to E! News.
Lisa Marie took implicit ownership of the location erstwhile she turned 25 successful February 1993. Graceland volition besides service arsenic the determination for Lisa Marie's last resting place, a rep for Riley confirmed to E! News. She volition beryllium buried alongside her begetter and her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by termination successful 2020 astatine property 27.
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Graceland welcomes implicit 600,000 visitors each twelvemonth and is the astir celebrated location successful America aft The White House. It was named to the American National Register of Historic Places successful 1991.
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The spot offers ticketed visits for guests to spot Elvis' jumpsuits and classical car collection, arsenic good arsenic his idiosyncratic home, Vernon Presley's concern office, Elvis' trophy building, his racquetball halfway and the meditation garden, wherever the King of Rock and Roll was laid to rest.
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When Elvis archetypal acquisition the location it was 10,266 quadrate feet. Today, it's present expanded to 17,552 quadrate feet connected 13.8 acres of land.
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When the "Jailhouse Rock" vocalist was astatine the home, the play market measure was astir $500, according to David Adler's book, The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley. The circumstantial items to beryllium stored successful the Graceland room astatine each times included a lawsuit of Pepsi, steak, hamburger buns, cans of sauerkraut, wieners, astatine slightest six cans of biscuits, brownies, banana pudding, thin bacon, mustard, crystal cream, fudge cookies, brownies, and assorted caller fruit.
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In summation to 5 staircases and 3 fireplaces, the location besides has a billIards country and a lair that Elvis referred to arsenic "The Den". Complete with a waterfall, woody walls, a writer shag carpet and integrative foliage, fans began calling it "the Jungle Room" erstwhile Graceland was opened to nationalist visitors successful 1982.
According to Rolling Stone, Elvis turned the oasis into a temporary workplace to grounds 16 songs that were released on 1976's Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee, and 1977's Moody Blue.
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The authoritative Elvis Instagram account revealed that the Heartbreak Hotel histrion was "a immense TV junkie" and "actually had 14 TV screens acceptable up each astir the Graceland mansion."
His programming of choice? "He loved to ticker football," the caption read, "and prime-time favorites similar Laugh-In, The Untouchables, The Tonight Show and The Match Game."
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Though Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorced successful 1973, she became a co-executor of Graceland after the 1979 decease of the singer's father, Vernon Presley. She has been instrumental successful keeping the property up and moving arsenic a tourer destination and her ex 1 of the highest-earning deceased celebrities of each time.
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