Priscilla Presley and Smashing Pumpkin‘s Billy Corgan are amongst these main tributes to Lisa Marie Presley on the second anniversary of her loss of life.
The one daughter of Elvis and sole inheritor to his property died on the age of 54 on January 12 2023, after struggling a cardiac arrest at her Calabasas house.
Now, two years on, quite a few well-known faces have shared their respects on-line, celebrating her life and recalling how the loss impacted them.
Taking to Instagram yesterday (January 12), her mom Priscilla Presley marked the anniversary with a touching submit on Instagram. “‘I miss you greater than phrases can say. I want I may maintain you, speak to you, see your smile only one extra time,” she wrote alongside a photograph of Lisa Marie. “I want you possibly can see how a lot you might be nonetheless liked, how deeply you might be missed by all of us who carry you in our hearts.”
Her daughter, actress Riley Keough [Daisy Jones & The Six], additionally took to Instagram to pay her respects on the anniversary of her loss of life. On her Tales, she shared each sharing a screenshot from a previous video name along with her mom, together with a throwback picture Lisa Marie with daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood as infants.
“Two years. I really like you at all times,” she wrote within the first submit. The second submit noticed her write: “I can’t consider it’s been two years, I miss you and love you a lot mama.” The twins, Harper and Finley are actually aged 16.
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan took to his Fb web page to share a photograph of Lisa Marie and pay tribute. “Gone two years. Arduous to consider,” he wrote within the caption, earlier than including: “She’s very missed.”
Corgan was amongst the array of artists who paid their respects to Lisa Marie Presley at her funeral in January 2023.
The memorial service passed off on the entrance garden of the Presley household’s Graceland house and museum in Memphis, Tennessee. It was initially introduced that Presley could be buried on the Graceland website subsequent to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died on the age of 27 in 2020. The gardens of Graceland additionally present the resting place for Elvis, his dad and mom Vernon and Gladys, and his grandmother Minnie Mae.
Corgan, who collaborated with Presley on 2003’s ‘Savior’, carried out ‘To Sheila’ from The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1998 album ‘Adore’ on the service. Earlier than then, he recalled how “This is able to be sorrow and on extra ranges than I can rely… I really can not discover the phrases to precise how unhappy this really is.”
Gone 2 years. Arduous to consider. She’s very missed.
Posted by William Patrick Corgan on Sunday, January 12, 2025
Others to pay their respects in the course of the 2023 service included Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose. Priscilla led the eulogies, studying a letter penned by Riley Keough. “I do not know the best way to put my mom into phrases. Fact is there are too many”, the letter learn. “mama was my icon, my function mannequin. Even now I can’t get throughout all the pieces there’s to be understood and identified about her”.
Priscilla additionally went on to recite a poem written by Keough, titled The Previous Soul, which described Lisa Marie as “fragile but sturdy”, and touched on her “survivor’s guilt” following Benjamin’s loss of life.
Others paying respects to Lisa Marie on the second anniversary of her loss of life embrace her half-brother Navarone Garcia – the son of Pricilla and producer Marco Garibaldi. Sharing a photograph of them collectively, he wrote that he “can’t consider it’s been two years” since her loss of life.
“Sending love and considering of you in the present day. Folks appear to like to evaluate or have an opinion on our relationship however I do really miss the great instances we had. When issues had been harmonious issues had been nice,” the caption learn. “[It’s] unlucky that I even should deliver up the unharmonious instances… however ya know someone’s gonna say one thing destructive (and possibly nonetheless will anyway) about one thing I mentioned one time. I really like you and miss you sis.”
Presley’s posthumous memoir, From Right here To The Nice Unknown, was printed on October 8 and recollects her time in Graceland as a toddler, her battle with opioid dependancy, the lack of her son Benjamin and extra.
To have a good time the discharge, Riley launched into a guide tour, which noticed her pay tribute to her mom and joined by numerous particular company.
