Presley Speaks Jan 29, 2003 -- LISA-MARIE PRESLEY is set to reveal all about her split from actor NICOLAS CAGE after sitting down for an interview with American broadcaster DIANE SAWYER on Monday (27JAN03). Last November (02) the CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN star filed for divorce from Presley, daughter of rock 'n' roll king ELVIS, after just three months of marriage. Sawyer booked a suite at Beverly Hills' PENINSULA HOTEL to conduct the interview with Presley, who is hoping the upcoming tell-all will help promote her debut album. The broadcaster broke a record last year (02) when she interviewed WHITNEY HOUSTON - she scored the biggest news programme rating for five years.

Lisa Marie Presley on ET Tonight, January 29, 2003 LISA MARIE PRESLEY's new album! You saw DIANE SAWYER's promo during the Super Bowl. Now, we have her first song. To Whom It May Concern ... January 29, 2003 After years of receiving offers to record, LISA MARIE PRESLEY is finally answering fans who wondered if she'd follow in the famous "blue suede shoes" of her father by belting out some tunes this spring on her debut pop/rock album To Whom It May Concern. Tonight on ET -- get an exclusive sample of her new single "Lights Out." Then check into AOL this Friday, where the full song will be available for the first-time ever! ELVIS' little girl has always fiercely guarded her privacy, even through high-profile unions with MICHAEL JACKSON and NICOLAS CAGE. The King's offspring held her lip and kept out of the limelight -- until now. "This is me," she explains. "This record is me. Every song is me. You're going to see who I really am and not what the tabloids say or whatever anyone has to say about me." Although Lisa Marie's life has been surrounded by the magical legacy of her famous rock pop, she admits she didn't even sing in front of anyone until she was 20 years old. "When I had gone through enough (expletive) in my life where I felt like I needed an outlet and I was just going to let it go and let people know who I was through that, then it was the right time." The Capitol Records debut, written almost entirely by Lisa Marie, was produced by ERIC ROSSE (a producer for TORI AMOS), ANDREW SLATER (Capitol Records president and producer for FIONA APPLE, MACY GRAY and THE WALLFLOWERS), GLENN BALLARD, songwriter-producer DANNY KEOUGH (Lisa's first husband), and former SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman BILLY CORGAN. On working with her former husband, Lisa commented, "Danny's my best friend in the world and we write all the time. He's a huge part of why I'm singing and writing." For more on Lisa Marie's debut album -- watch tonight's ET!

News from EPE (28 Jan. 2003) Lisa Marie Presley To Appear on ABC "Primetime" Recently, ABC has run promos for their news magazine show Primetime indicating an upcoming appearance by Lisa Marie Presley, but no date is given. This has caused a number of calls and E-mails to Graceland/EPE for further information. It appears that the date is not locked in yet. Lisa's record label, Capitol Records, tells us that they expect it to air sometime in April, specific date to be announced. This Primetime appearance is part of a significant amount of news media work Lisa is doing as part of the launch of her debut album To Whom It May Concern, which is set for release on April 8. We will post a confirmed date for the Primetime appearance, as well as any others, as soon as we have confirmation.

Lisa Marie Presley on Primetime Lisa Marie Presley will appear as a guest on ABC's Primetime. Diane Sawyer will interview Lisa. Priscilla Presley on Larry King Live Priscilla Presley will appear as a guest on CNN's Larry King Live on Wednesday, February 5.

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Tue Jan 21,10:25 AM ET Lisa Marie Goes on the Record By Joal Ryan You were expecting Elvis' kid to go into, say, construction? Didn't think so. Instead, the inevitably inevitable has come to pass: Lisa Marie Presley is going into the rock-star business. Is she ready? Are we ready? Ready or not, To Whom It May Concern, the debut album from the King of Rock 'n' Roll's lone offspring, will bow in stores April 8, Capital Records announced Friday. "This is me. This record is me. Every song is me," Presley said in a statement released through her label. "You're going to see who I really am and not what the tabloids say or whatever anyone has to say about me." Presley handles lead vocals and shares songwriting credits with the likes of ex-Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, on most of the album's 11 tracks. Sorry, there are no Elvis covers. But the first single, the country/rock-ish "Lights Out," does touch on her roots--specifically, her (and her famous daddy's) Memphis roots. "Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis/That's where my family's buried and gone/Last time I was there I noticed a space left/Next to them there in Memphis in the damn back lawn," goes a "Lights Out" refrain. Larry Flick, senior talent editor for Billboard magazine, has sampled the cut. His verdict: "It's actually quite good." Flick described Presley's voice as "smoky," offering country queen Wynonna Judd as comparison. Los Angeles radio programmer Chris Patyk said he found the single "very Sheryl Crow." While those are words sure to warm a record promoter's alleged heart, they're not the whole story. When it comes to Lisa Marie Presley, the whole story involves lots and lots of baggage. "The first time you listen to her record, you're first listening to hear if you can hear her father in it," Flick said. "And then the second time, you listen to the lyrics--to see if there's anything about Elvis in them." And so goes the challenge of selling Elvis' daughter--she's the new artist who's not really new. "It's more like she's famous for being famous," Flick said. "In the music industry, that's really harder to overcome." To be sure, Presley has not jumped to fill her father's jumpsuit. Nor has she rushed to prove herself in any other profession. She turns 35 on February 1, having most notably raised two children, with first husband Danny Keough, who worked on the new album. Outside of being Elvis' kid, she is best known for marrying (and divorcing) Michael Jackson, and, later, marrying (and divorcing) Nicolas Cage. Presley was 9 when Elvis died in 1977. She was offered her first music contract as a teenager. She declined. She would be 20 before she even warbled in front of another person. (Or so the legend goes, per her record label.) While she once appeared in a music video with Jackson, Presley rejected other offers that ostensibly would have made her a star in her own right, including, she said, a Vanilla Ice flick. "I didn't want to do anything just based on who I am," she said in the statement. But there's no getting around it--she is who she is. "I kind of feel for her, to be honest," Flick said. "If she wants to be a credible music artist, she first needs to deal with who she is." Likely, audiences also are going to need to deal with who she is. Patyk, assistant program director and music director of L.A.'s Star 98.7 (American Idol's Ryan Seacrest's radio home), said he has been trying out "Lights Out" on ears around the station. First, he plays the song for coworkers. Then, he tells them the identity of the singer. "All of them were surprised," Patyk said. (And, yes, the surprise was a pleasant one.) As a programmer, Patyk called "Lights Out" a "great fit" for his station's modern adult contemporary format. He was to test the song out on the air last Sunday night. "We'll see what the reaction is," Patyk said. "[But] it's definitely on our radar." The album is also on the radar of Elvis fans. It's just not necessarily high on the radar. Rich Wilson, copresident of the It's Only Love for Elvis Fan Club, said, in an email interview, that the average King fan is worn out from years of false starts involving the Lisa Marie album (she signed her first deal five years ago). And besides, according to Wilson, at the end of the day, To Whom It May Concern is not an Elvis album. "We are Elvis Presley fans first and foremost," Wilson said. Still, Wilson, for one, intends to pick up a copy of Lisa Marie's debut. "Not because she is Elvis' daughter but because of what I have heard of her voice," Wilson said. "She reminds me a lot of country music singer Tanya Tucker." Tanya Tucker. Sheryl Crow. Wynonna. More comparisons, more labels. Another day in the life for you-know-who's kid.

Backstage of UCLA's Royce Hall (September 28, 2002)
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January 17, 2003 Press Release from Capitol Records CAPITOL RECORDS SETS APRIL 8 FOR THE RELEASE OF LISA MARIE PRESLEY'S DEBUT ALBUM This is me. This record is me. Every song is me. You're going to see who I really am and not what the tabloids say or whatever anyone has to say about me." That's quite a statement for any artist to make, especially on the eve of the release of just her debut album. But when the artist is Lisa Marie Presley, the normal rules don't apply. Her life has been held up to public scrutiny since day one. "There was press there the day I was born," she says. Indeed, from being the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, through her role as chairman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises and through high-profile romantic involvements, she's been a very visible figure her entire life. And yet, other than tabloid sensationalism, what do you really know abouther? Through it all, she has managed to maintain a very guarded privacy, rarely giving interviews, rarely revealing her true self. That all changes with Capitol Records' April 8 release of To Whom It May Concern, which marks the emergence of the real Lisa Marie Presley -- and the emergence of a new, strong voice in the pop music world, both literally and figuratively. The singing hits you first: confident and rich, rock solid with a distinctive sense of individuality. Then there's the music: powerful and personable, steering clear of cliches while burrowing into your consciousness. And then the lyrics strike: Written almost entirely by Presley, they're forthright and frank, pulling no punches. Songs run from the brutal self-analysis of "S.O.B." with its sinewy rock imprint, to the broken-hearted loss of "Nobody Noticed It," from the forceful cry for an end to prescribed drugging of children in "To Whom It May Concern" to her unbridled love for her own children in "So Lovely." And in the dusky textures of "Lights Out," she hauntedly confronts the dark side of her heritage: "Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis / That's where my family's buried and gone / Last time I was there I noticed a space left / Next to them there in Memphis in the damn back lawn." (RealAudio Sample) "I never wanted to write a song, ever, about anything indicating my genetic code whatsoever, or my background," she says. "But if I had to do it, then 'Lights Out' would be that song. It's kind of a darker, odd take on it. It's not like, 'Woo! I'm from Memphis and look at my life and it's so wonderful.''' Musically, the album bears a distinctive rock edge, crafted by primary producer Eric Rosse (who produced Tori Amos' first two albums) and on "Lights Out" by Andrew Slater (producer of Fiona Apple, Macy Gray and the Wallflowers, and Capitol Records president since 2000). Also evident are the stamps of Glenn Ballard (who signed Presley to her record deal with his then Capitol-distributed label five years ago), songwriter-musician Danny Keough (Presley's first husband and still best friend) and Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan leader Billy Corgan (co-writer and musician on the dark-hued "Savior"). But at all turns, the songs present the vision and presence of Lisa Marie. Realizing that vision was a long journey. Though music was a constant positive in her life for as long as she can remember, Presley never even sang in front another person until she was 20. Once she did, though, songs flooded from her. But it was still a decade before she had something worth taking public. "When I had gone through enough shit in my life where I felt like I needed an outlet and I was just going to let it go and let people know who I was through that, then it was the right time," she says. Signed by Ballard, she found herself in intense training to earn how to write and record. Songs were written and rewritten, recorded and re-recorded. The arrival of Slater at Capitol and the hiring of Rosse to oversee the project kicked the album into gear. "By the time I met Eric I was mean--'I don't care what you think! I don't want to talk to you!' '' she recalls. "But he was really patient with me and he understood that the songs had been done and redone for four years and I was ready to throw my middle finger up at everybody at that point. And then he started doing things that were really cool, and I was, 'Oh, We're actually going to be on the same page.' We wrote 'Indifferent' and I was, 'Okay, let's give this vibe to the rest of the record.' '' Slater, too, worked hard to help Presley make not just an album, but a personal statement. "When I got with Andy, he didn't push me in any particular pop direction," she says. "He just wanted it to be cool and he wanted the cred, which is what I wanted.'' And Presley eagerly gives credit to such other collaborators as Keough and Corgan. "Danny's my best friend in the world and we write all the time," she says. "And he's a huge part of why I'm singing and writing, so I wasn't going to have him not be part of this record. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be writing or singing." Corgan provided a critical ear and a creative spark. "Billy's been a friend of mine for a while, ever since I started writing," she says. "I played him my first few songs that I was thinking of putting on the record and he was, 'Eh, no, no! Okay, I hear where you're trying to go, but no.' He was so hard core with me. A year later he heard I was progressing as a writer. I said come on and write a song with me. He's good at dark. This is dark, but the two of us combined with the dark writing thing, it was like, okay, somebody just shoot me right in the head. So it had to be taken up a bit so it would not make you want to kill yourself if you heard it." That this startling emergence came at this point in her life is no accident. She'd had many opportunities to make records before. She was offered her first record deal while a teenager, a time at which she hadn't ever even sung in front of another person, let alone in public. "I didn't want to do anything just based on who I am," she says. "I mean, I was asked to do a bloody movie with Vanilla Ice! The stuff I've been offered in my life is insane and I didn't do any of it because I didn't care. I was doing this because my heart's in this. This is what I'm good at doing. I'm good at putting myself in a song. That's it." TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN -TRACK LISTING S.O.B. The Road Between Lights Out Better Beware Nobody Noticed It Sinking In Important So Lovely Indifferent Gone To Whom It May Concern

Her Presley roots radiate from Lights Out By Bill Ellis, The Commercial Appeal (January 16, 2003) That voice coming over FM 100, the one that could be a huskier Sheryl Crow, is Lisa Marie Presley, whose single Lights Out has been getting advance spins by the station. "We got a leaked copy of the song last week," says Chris Taylor, program director for the Hot Adult Contemporary radio station (WMC-FM 99.7). "I was hearing rumblings it was heard in other cities. . . . We finally got a copy a couple days ago, and played it on the morning show. We challenged listeners to guess the artist and 99 percent of the people guessed who it was, all except one guy who thought it was Pink." The song is the slated lead single for Presley's coming debut album, "To Whom It May Concern," which has been given an April 8 release date by the album's label Capitol Records. Delivered in a roots rock vein, Lights Out is a song that seems to address Lisa Marie's feelings about being the daughter of Elvis Presley; Lisa Marie is Presley's only child. Among its lyrics is a chorus that states: "Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis / That's where my family's buried and gone." (To hear a snippet of the song, go to http://lisamarie.tripod.co.jp/lisanews.htm. Taylor said the single was serviced to FM 100 on Tuesday, though the station sneaked it beginning last Friday. It is in new music rotation, meaning it gets a few spins daily, a good reaction given that FM 100's target audience is not typically Elvis-crazy. "People have been anticipating what it must sound like because of who she is," he says. "It's edgy enough, pop enough, adult enough that if she were going to showcase to the world who she is, this is a good direction." Taylor says that according to radio monitoring service MediaBase, FM 100 was the first station to play Lights Out nationally. Other stations locally are considering playing it, including the Memphis Pig (WMPS-FM 107.5). "We're looking at it," says Pig program director Steve Richards. "It's a good-sounding record and it has a lot of Memphis references." Former Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission president Jerry Schilling, who managed Lisa Marie for several years in the early '90s, heard FM 100 play the song and was pleased at the result. "Since she was 6 years old, Lisa has had music in her soul," says Schilling. "(Elvis-backing vocalists) The Sweet Inspirations used to bring her records and she would listen like an artist. I would see her in her room putting the needle back on the parts she wanted to hear." Schilling says Lisa Marie, 34, shied away from a career in music for years, one reason being the perception of living up to her father's legendary legacy. Nevertheless, Lisa Marie had several offers on the table in the early '90s, including a production deal at one label that Schilling says he snagged without using her name "to make sure that what I was hearing was good." "We were closing a deal at Epic Records and we had a firm offer from RCA," continues Schilling. "And she called me and said, 'I can't sign the deal.' I said, 'What do you mean?' I thought she was kidding. She said, 'Jerry, I just can't do it, and you'll know why.' "And a couple of days later she married Michael Jackson." Lisa Marie married Jackson in 1994. They divorced less than two years later in 1996. Her third marriage, to actor Nicolas Cage, ended in November after mere months. Lisa Marie announced her singing talents at the Mid-South Coliseum's "Elvis in Concert '97." There, she sang a combined live/video duet with her filmed father a la the Natalie Cole/Nat King Cole song Unforgettable. Lisa Marie then gave fans a preview of her album - a self-penned tribute to her father, Nobody Noticed It - that was part of last year's spectacle, "Elvis - The Concert," at The Pyramid. Lisa Marie signed with Glen Ballard to his Capitol imprint Java Records in 1998. Ballard, a Natchez native and Ole Miss grad, is best known for his work with Alanis Morissette, but has an extensive list of credentials from Aerosmith and Michael Jackson to No Doubt and Christina Aguilera. Ballard did not produce "To Whom It May Concern," though he shows up as a songwriter on several tracks (notably Lights Out). Lisa Marie also co-wrote several tunes with first husband Danny Keough and former Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan. Lisa Marie is principal lyricist on the record, which includes such song titles as The Road Between, Gone, Indifferent, Excuse Me, To Whom It May Concern, So Lovely, SOB, Savior and Better Beware. "I'm so happy for her," says Schilling. "I don't care if she has great success or no success. I think it's important for her as a human being to give it a shot. But I think she's going to be huge because she can sing."

Lights Out Written by Lisa Marie Presley, Glen Ballard and Clif Magness Lyrics by Lisa Marie Presley You were a million miles behind And I was crying every time I'd leave you Then I didn't want to see you I still keep my watch two hours behind (RealAudio Sample) Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis That's where my family's buried and gone Last time I was there I noticed a space left Next to them there in Memphis In the damn back lawn I didn't know that I was in the crowd And the fresh cut grass stopped growing Everything on my shelf has fallen I still keep my watch two hours behind Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis That's where my family's buried and gone Last time I was there I noticed a space left Next to them there in Memphis In the damn back lawn Was that bridge I was crossing Somewhere I stopped walking I guess I fell off on my own I heard all the roads they lead to Memphis Except for the one I'm stumbling down And I'll be damned if I ever get this little son of a bitch from Memphis Well it's all there I guess And I haven't forgot

Coming 4-track CD LISA MARIE PRESLEY LIGHTS OUT 1. S.O.B. 2. The Road Between 3. Lights Out (Real) 4. Nobody Noticed It

The King's Little Princess Makes Musical Debut 9 JANUARY 2003 Lisa Marie Presley is to follow in her legendary father's footsteps in April by releasing her debut album. She seems to have inherited her father's talent. too, if her performance at a recent Elvis tribute concert is anything to go by. The 34-year-old received rapturous applause after performing the song Nobody Noticed, which she wrote in memory of her dad. The album will be quite unlike any of her father's many records, however. Producer Glen Ballard says the recording is more modern and diverse. "It's a pop record, but it also has elements of blues, funk, country, R&B, hip-hop - it's sort of the confluence of whatever modern-day Memphis is right now," he said. "It has a lot of influences - It sort of grew up in the soil from which she sprang." Needless to say, the world's music press will be eagerly awaiting the release, so Lisa Marie won't get the chance to develop slowly like other artists. The Graceland heiress, who penned all the songs herself, could be forgiven for feeling a little nervous. In the past she has said the Presley name has been more of a burden than a blessing. Asked whether she would cover any of her father's tracks, she said: "No. I think it would be disrespectful to his fans, like trying to cash in on his fame. I want to make it with my own talent, my own ability."

Elvis' Daughter to Make Recording Debut (Fox News) Lisa Marie Presley's long-awaited debut album is coming to us on April 8. That's the word yesterday from sources at Capitol Records, where Presley evidently has a contract. So what would a Lisa Marie album be like? For one thing, Presley has written all the lyrics on the album for songs titled: "The Road Between," "Gone," "Indifferent," "Excuse Me," "To Whom It May Concern" (which I guess she could perform as a medley with "Return to Sender"), "So Lovely," "SOB" and a few others. One song, called "Savior," Presley co-wrote with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. Another, the closer, called, "Better Beware," she co-wrote with her first husband, Danny Keogh. There's no indication from the liner notes if Lisa Marie's songs address issues such as her late father, Scientology, her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage, or Graceland. But one song, "The Road Between," is supposedly about her hometown of Memphis, Tenn. Nearly all of the self-titled album was produced by Eric Rosse, an up-and-coming European producer. One track was worked on personally by Capitol Records boss Andy Slater. None of them were produced by Glen Ballard, Alanis Morissette's producer, who had worked on and off with Presley for years on the project. Nevertheless, a couple of the songs Ballard co-wrote with Cliff Magnes are included, and one the pair wrote with Keogh. Also missing from the album is the one song credited to Presley in the BMI music database, "You Made Me Love You." The long-aborning project has been the subject of much discussion, particularly since it was once rumored that Presley had a deal with Michael Jackson to record an album in exchange for marrying him. That project, produced by David Foster, never came to fruition, although miracle-worker Foster did record tracks with her.

Coming CD album "To Whom It May Concern" by Lisa Marie Presley Release Date; Apr.8, 2003 Capitol Records Tracks: The Road Between Gone Indifferent Excuse Me To Whom It May Concern (?? a medley with "Return to Sender") So Lovely S.O.B. Savior(Co-wrote with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins) Better Beware (Co-wrote with Danny Keogh) Lights Out Nobody Noticed It Sinking In Important

(Jan.4, 2003, Thanks to Beth)

LISA MARIE HAVING NIC CAGE'S BABY? HOW IRONIC. Just weeks after splitting with Nic Cage, Lisa Marie Presley may be pregnant with his baby - something he desperately wanted and she didn't, say sources. "She can't believe she missed her period," a family member reveals. "She may be pregnant." Lisa Marie, 34, has told relatives and friends that while the last days of her brief marriage to Cage were hell, they were still having sex right up to the final bust-up Nov. 25. "Now Lisa is upset," says a family member. "She's telling friends she may be having Nic's baby, and that's a problem because she doubts they'll ever get back together." To find out Nic's reaction to the possible baby bombshell and how Lisa Maria plans to handle such a surprising development, buy this week's Star, on sale everywhere. (The Star, Published on: January 3, 2003) SPOOKY SITUATION Lisa Marie Presley, who's in the middle of a divorce from Nic Cage, got HER cage rattled while putting finishing touches on her upcoming CD. She's been recording in a Hollywood Hills studio, which used to be the home of master magician Harry Houdini. Both Lisa and one of her musicians swear they've seen a ghost roaming the place and heard strange noises and doors slamming. Maybe Houdini hasn't left the building. (The Star, Published on: January 2, 2003) LISA MARIE DIVORCE BOMBSHELL! The REAL story behind split with Nic Cage LISA MARIE PRESLEY's marriage was doomed from day one, friends say. But it took a series of angry explosions, petty disagreements and vicious blowups over the course of three months for the high-profile couple to crash and burn. Now, those close to Lisa Marie are spilling her story of the bitter breakup exclusively to Star. "I guess I knew from the start that my marriage to Nic wasn't going to work," Lisa Marie confided to one close pal. "I hoped I could change him, but it just wasn't to be. Now I know we should never have married. I feel embarrassed and foolish that at my age I've had three failed marriages." Friends of Lisa Marie, 34, say her relationship with Nic, 38, was fundamentally flawed because: Lisa Marie wanted to pursue a recording career, but Nic resented her ex-husband, musician Danny Keough, being involved. Lisa Marie is very family-oriented, while Nic is still a hard-partying bachelor type. And her children � Danielle, 13, and Ben, 10 � never really got to know him. Scientology is very important to Lisa Marie, but Nic didn't want anything to do with her religion. Nic was more in love with being married to Elvis' daughter than Lisa Marie herself. The end came in a whirlwind series of savage spats. The couple held hands and smiled for the cameras at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater Nov. 23 during an event showcasing Nic's films. But they erupted in a screamfest while shopping on Hollywood Boulevard Nov. 24. He filed for divorce the very next day, Nov. 25. "They were at the new Kodak center with their boys, Nic's son Weston, who's 12, and Lisa Marie's boy Ben, who's 10," says another insider. "The two boys are interested in lots of the same funky things you see in the shops there. "At one point, Lisa Marie said she wanted to go into a big new makeup place called Sephora to pick up some girly stuff. "But Nic and the boys were all against that. They wanted to hit one of the restaurants at the center and get something to eat." Sources say that Lisa Marie grudgingly agreed to join them, but after the meal, when Nic refused to go to Sephora, she flipped. "He said that they were with their boys and should forget about themselves," says the insider. "But Lisa Marie knew very well that he meant her � that he was telling her not to be so selfish, always wanting everyone to be doing what she wanted. "She just exploded with rage. Lisa Marie can swear like a sailor and she let Nic have it, calling him a f---ing a------." Then he exploded, too. "He was absolutely livid," says the insider. "Nic grabbed the boys and went home, leaving her there all alone. "He took the car, so Lisa Marie had to call a friend to come and give her a ride home." On Sunday evening, the fight between Nic and Lisa Marie escalated, say sources. Her plans for a Thanksgiving Day celebration had been a source of irritation to Nic for several weeks, but they finally had a big blowup Sunday night over planning the holiday activities. She told Nic she and her family were going to have a Thanksgiving dinner at her home in Hidden Hills and then make an appearance at an event at the Scientology Center in Hollywood. While she didn't say it, Nic presumed that her ex, Danny, would be there as part of the family, says another source. But insiders say Nic had been saying for weeks he wanted to spend Thanksgiving with his son Weston and with Enzo, the son of his ex-wife, Patricia Arquette, with whom he's very close. Still miffed over the afternoon blowup, "Lisa Marie demanded that Nic be with her for the festivities and follow her agenda," says the source. "Nic absolutely refused to go. It was clear that he was done with Lisa Marie, her family and her ex-husband Danny Keough. He left her house and thought about it all night. The next morning he told his lawyers to file for divorce. "It was the end - after just 107 days." Sources say Cage, whose real last name is Coppola, has a volatile temper and acts impulsively. After a big fight, he just walks away. That's why he never sold any of his homes, so he'd always have a place to go if he had to bail out of the relationship. But Lisa Marie is pretty explosive, too. One time, she was bawling him out on the cellphone, and he just hung up on her. "She flew into a rage, screaming and throwing things and demanding that someone get him back on the phone for her," says a pal. In hindsight, Lisa Marie, who has two children with Keough, now realizes she never should have married Nic. In a statement released through her publicist, Lisa Marie told Star: "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake." She later confided to a friend: "We had so many fights before we actually got married that I wasn't going to go through with the ceremony. "We even broke up for a while, but when we got back together I thought it would all work out. "I should have listened to my head, not my heart." When they tied the knot in a romantic oceanfront ceremony on the Big Island of Hawaii Aug. 10, things looked rosy. She was a vision in white. He was dashing in a black tux. But things started to go wrong as soon as they returned to the mainland, say sources. A couple of weeks before Cage filed for divorce, wannabe pop star Lisa Marie banned Nic from the studio where she was recording her CD. "When he turned up unannounced to see her putting the finishing touches to her single and CD, she kicked him out!" says another source. "She's a perfectionist and she told him she didn't feel comfortable with him there. She didn't want him there and told him to leave. He was furious and stormed out. "What made it worse was that Lisa Marie's ex has been attending her recording sessions. Nic was jealous of the close bond they still have because of their two children." Their lifestyles were also at odds with each other. "Nic and Lisa Marie are very different people," an insider explains. "Lisa Marie is a Scientologist and Nic doesn't buy into all that. Nic always liked to party and to drink and raise hell but when he married Lisa Marie she insisted that wild lifestyle come to an end. "Lisa Marie's kids found it hard to adapt to Nic after the marriage. They never accepted him and that created another rift between the newlyweds. Nic felt like an outsider while Lisa Marie kept her family close. Her family always came first. "Danny always seemed to be around, usually with the excuse of caring for their children. Danny's influence with Lisa Marie enraged Nic." News of the Cage/Presley divorce came as no surprise to one friend of the couple. "It could never last. They're so totally different from each other," the pal tells Star. "Nic likes to drink brandy and smoke cigars." Says another source: "Lisa is much quieter. She hardly drinks anything and she'd rather stay home and watch TV or an old movie than go out and party." And they couldn't agree on anything -not even where to live. "Nic has several properties in Los Angeles and none of them was right for Lisa Marie," says another source. According to sources she hated his bachelor pad with the Harley Davidson motorcycle in the foyer and its game room and pool table. She even made him get rid of his prized comic book collection. Pals say she nagged him that they took up too much room. It was a big concession for the actor, who took his stage name from the comic book character Luke Cage. By the same token, Nic hated her house in Hidden Hills, which is decorated in gingham slip covers and curtains and lit by candles, say sources. "In the end they ended up renting a house in Brentwood for a year. But even that wasn't right. Lisa Marie hated it and Nic was proposing spending -I believe somewhere in the region of $600,000 - to renovate the house, even though it was owned by someone else," says the source. "The fact is Nic didn't like living with Lisa Marie. He didn't like living with Patricia Arquette when they were married. He spent most of the time at his home in the Hollywood Hills -while Patricia remained at her home in the San Fernando Valley. Nic likes living alone." The most revealing insight comes from another insider who says Nic only married Lisa Marie because he is such a fanatical Elvis Presley fan. "He's got a total fetish about Elvis," says the insider. "I am sure that was probably the main reason why he married Elvis' daughter. What a trophy! "Nic has every record Elvis made. He's got all his movies. "And in Honeymoon in Vegas with Sarah Jessica Parker and James Caan, he even dressed like Elvis. The guy is Elvis mad." Sources say the actor even owned a pair of blue suede shoes and had a taped message of Elvis' voice on his answering machine. "The ultimate was obviously marrying Elvis' daughter and being the father of Elvis' grandchildren," says the insider. "But obviously he decided that being married to Lisa Marie just wasn't worth it." Lisa Marie herself finally admitted to a friend: 'He never really loved me. He was in love with my father.' " (The Star, Published on: December 9, 2002)

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