Lisa Marie Presley "always worried" about her dad Elvis Presley and was plagued by fears about him dying. or signup to continue reading The singer lost her famous father in 1977 when she was nine years old and now her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown reveals she spent much of her childhood worrying about her dad. In an excerpt from the book, Lisa wrote: "I was always worried about my dad dying.
Sometimes I'd see him and he was out of it. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line, 'I hope my daddy doesn't die'.
" In the book, due to be published in October less than two years since Lisa's death in January 2023, she also wrote about the joy she felt seeing her father perform on stage. "Going to his shows was my favourite thing in the world. I was so proud of him.
He would take me by the hand and bring me out onstage, then get walked to wherever his place was on the stage, and I would be taken from him and brought to wherever I was going to be sitting in the audience. Usually with (Elvis' father) Vernon," Lisa wrote. "The electricity of those shows.
There's nothing I've felt that's been even close to that feeling, ever. Electrifying is such a generic word, but it really is what it felt like. I loved watching him perform.
"I had certain songs that I liked - Hurt, and How Great Thou Art. I would ask him to sing those songs for me and he would always say yes." Lisa had been working on From Here To The Unknown when she died in January 2023 an.
