Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough, recently spoke to People on September 25, 2024, about completing her mother's memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown. She said that she found it "incredibly painful" to hear tapes of her late mother, Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January 2023 at 54, after complications from a prior weight loss surgery.
While speaking to People about her experience in completing the memoir, Riley said,
"Because my mother was Elvis Presley's daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected. What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I've done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was."
To finish working on the memoir, the star listened to recordings of her mother,
"The tapes are an incredible portrait of the force of nature she was. Depending on the day and her mood, she can sound locked-in or distracted, vulnerable and open or annoyed and closed off, hopeful, angry, everything. You hear her in all her complications."
Riley Keough announces book tour for her mother's memoir
In collaboration with Riley, Random House took to their Instagram account on July 30, announcing Riley's book tour for her mother's memoir. The memoir is set to release on October 8, 2024. The book tour starts on October 9 and will make six stops in October in New York, Graceland, St. Louis, Nashville, London, and Los Angeles.
Shortly before Lisa Marie Presley died on January 12, 2023, she asked her daughter to help finish her memoir. It documents difficult moments in her life, including losing her father, Elvis, in 1977, moving to Los Angeles with her mother, Priscilla Presley, and battling addiction and grief.
While talking about what she hopes people will take away from the book, Riley, during her interview, mentioned that she wants readers to see her mother more than Elvis Presley's daughter.
"To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life."
She also added that she wants to give "voice" to her mother in "a way that eluded her while she was alive."
Co-written by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough, From Here to The Great Unknown is now available to pre-order.
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