Riley Keough felt a duty to finish Lisa Marie Presley’s book on Elvis, grief, addiction and love
Riley Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, has faithfully completed her mother's memoir after her sudden death in 2023
Riley Keough was quick to agree to help complete her mother’s memoir. She thought they’d write it together, reflecting on her extraordinary upbringing and life, but it became a much greater responsibility after Lisa Marie Presley’ssudden death in 2023.
Finishing the task her mother — the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley and a recording artist in her own right — had started years earlier elicited “all kinds of emotions,” Keough said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the book’s release Tuesday.
“It just felt like a kind of a duty that I had to complete for her,” Keough said. “I’m just happy that it’s done and that it’ll be in the world and there for people to read.”
“From Here to the Great Unknown” is named in a nod to the moving lyrics of Presley’s “Where No One Stands Alone,” a song Lisa Marie recorded as a duet with her father over 50 years after he first released it and over 40 years after his death.
