A public memorial was held for the late Lisa Marie Presley at her father’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday (January 22). Billy Corgan, Alanis Morissette, and Axl Rose had been amongst those that carried out musical tributes to the singer, who died January 12 on the age of 54. The total service, together with musical units, was stay streamed by Folks.
Corgan was the primary musical performer on the occasion; he performed an acoustic rendition of the Smashing Pumpkins tune “To Sheila.” Corgan takes the stage round 17-minute mark of Folks’s video, which you’ll be able to watch in full right here.
Alanis Morissette was subsequent to carry out. She appeared onstage following a speech by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Morissette was accompanied by a pianist as she sang her tune “Relaxation.” She debuted the observe in 2017, when she sang it on the memorial service for Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, as Rolling Stone factors out. In a while, Axl Rose sat on the piano to carry out a stripped-down model of Weapons N’ Roses’ “November Rain.”
Presley’s public memorial additionally included phrases of remembrance from her mom Priscilla, Elvis affiliate Jerry Schilling, and plenty of others, in addition to a notice written by her daughter Riley Keough (learn by Keough’s husband Ben Smith-Petersen). Presley shall be buried subsequent to her son Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020 on the age of 27.
