(April 21-30, 2003)
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| Apr.3 | USA | ABC's "Primetime Thursday" (Diane Sawyer Interview - Transcript) |
| Apr.4 | USA | Chat with Lisa on chat.msn.com (Transcript) |
| Apr.7 | New York, NY | ABC's "Good Morning America" (Interview) |
| Apr.8 | New York, NY | ABC's "Good Morning America" (Performance) (pics) |
| Apr.8 | New York, NY | "Howard Stern Show" (Radio Show) |
| Apr.8 | New York, NY | MTV's "Total Request Live (TRL)" (Interview) |
| Apr.9 | New York, NY | CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" (Interview & Performance) |
| Apr.10 | New York, NY | Blink 102.7 FM Launch Party |
| Apr.12 | Las Vegas, NV | Dinner at the Hard Rock Hotel |
| Apr.14 | USA | MTV2's "Artist Favorites" (5pm ET - 1 hour) (Re-air; Apr.15, 3am., Apr.16, 8am., Apr.17, 2pm. & Apr.18, 10am) |
| Apr.14 | USA | E! TV "Howard Stern Show" 11pm- Part 1 |
| Apr.15 | USA | E! TV "Howard Stern Show" 11pm- Part 2 |
| Apr.18 | Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood) | Taping of "Sessions@AOL" (pics) |
| Apr.25 | USA | (Re-air) CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" |
| Apr.28 | Los Angeles, CA | (Taping) CNN's "Larry King Live" (Interview) |
| May 1 | Los Angeles, CA (Burbank) | NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (Interview & performance) |
| May 3 | Los Angeles, CA | (Taping) MTV, "mtvICON: Metallica" |
| May 6 | USA | (On-air) CNN's "Larry King Live" (Interview - Transcript) |
| May 6 | USA | (On-air) MTV, "mtvICON: Metallica" |
| May 9 | WWW | AOL's "Sessions@AOL" |
| May 9 | London, England | BBC One's "Friday Night With Ross" (Interview & performance?) |
| May 12 | London, England | Live at CC Club |
| May 17 | Los Angeles, CA (Pasadena) | KIIS FM "Wango Tango 2003" (Rose Bowl) |
| May 22 | Las Vegas, NV | VH1 "Divas Duets" (MGM Grand Hotel) |
| May 24 | Houston, TX | 104 KRBE's "Green Mountain Energy Earth Day Festival" (Eleanor Tinsley Park) |
| May 25 | Long Island, NY | BLI's "Summer Jam 2003" (Jones Beach Theater) |
| May 30 | Camden, NJ | "Q102 Concert" (Tweeter Center at the Waterfront) |
| May 31 | Boston, MA (Mansfield) | KISS 108's "KISS Concert 2003" (Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts) |
| June 1 | USA | VH1's "Driven" |
| June 7 | Baltimore, MD | Mix 106.5 "Mix fest" (Pier Six Concert Pavilion) |
| June 20 | New York, NY | NBC's "Today Show Summer Concert" (Rockfeller Plaza) |
| July 10 | ? Denver, CO | Concert (? Pepsi Center) |
| July 11 | Boston, MA | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Fleet Boston Pavilion) |
| July 12 | Hyannis, MA | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Cape Cod Melody Tent) |
| July 13 | Portland, ME | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Merrill Auditorium) |
| July 16 | Westbury, NY | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Westbury Music Fair) |
| July 17 | Pittsburgh, PA | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Amphitheater at Station Square) |
| July 19 | Atlantic City, NJ | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Trump Marina) |
| July 21 | New York, NY | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Beacon Theater) |
| July 23 | Vienna, VA | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Wolf Trap) |
| July 24 | Baltimore, MD | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Pier Six Concert Pavilion) |
| July 25 | Portsmouth, VA | "Chris Isaak Concert" (NTELOS Pavilion Harbor Center) |
| July 30 | Cary, NC | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Amphitheatre At Regency Park) |
| July 31 | Atlanta, GA | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Chastain Park Amphitheater) |
| Aug.1 | Memphis, TN | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Botanic Garden) |
| Aug.2 | Nashville, TN | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Ryman Auditorium) |
| Aug.5 | ? Detroit, MI | "Chris Isaak Concert" (? Meadow Brook Music Center) |
| Aug.5 | Minneapolis, MN | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Orpheum Theatre) |
| Aug.8 | Chicago, IL | "Chris Isaak Concert" (House Of Blues) |
| Aug.9 | Minneapolis, MN | "Chris Isaak Concert" (Orpheum Theatre) |
| Compiled by Haruo Hirose | ||
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Go to VH1 or Capitol Records (Flash)
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msn.com - Behind the scenes with Lisa Marie
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CD Album "To Whom It May Concern"
Germany; Mar.24 (EMI-Electrola) Amazon.de Amazon.uk Japan; Mar.29 (Toshiba EMI) 
USA/Canada; Apr.8 (Capitol Records)  , Amazon.ca,
Australia; Apr. 28 (EMI-Australia) HMV.au
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2-track CD-Single "Lights Out"
Germany; Mar.24 (EMI-Electrola) Amazon.de, , Amazon.ca, , Amazon.uk
Australia; Apr.7 (EMI-Australia) HMV.au Canada; Apr.8 (Capitol-Canada)
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Lisa On Charts; "To Whom It May Concern" Billboard Album Charts; #24(39,418)(May 17) <-- #17(46,312) <-- #14(92,742)(May 3) <-- #5(140,245)(Apr.26) "Lights Out" - Billboard Adult Top 40; #21(Apr.26) <-- #21 <-- #21 <-- #25 <-- #25 <-- #28 <-- #31 <-- #38(Mar.8) Lisa Lyrics | |
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(Apr.28, 2003) (Apr.27, 2003)
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VH1's "Divas Duets"
This Year's DIVAS
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Beyonce Knowles, and Lisa Marie Presley have all been added to "VH1 Divas Duets" benefit concert special.
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(Apr.26, 2003)
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Press Conference In Tokyo (2/25/03) (Windows Media Player) Cartoon of Lisa (Flash) |
(Apr.24, 2003)
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"Diane Sawyer Interview" to be aired in Australia this Sunday
Be watching 60 minutes this Sunday to see the Lisa Marie interview. Lisa Marie Presley will bear her soul to 60 minutes this Sunday 27th April on Channel 9. |
(Apr.24, 2003)
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Princess Presley
By Stuart McCarney, The Daily Telegraph, April 24, 2003
ON February 1 this year, the day of her 35th birthday, Lisa Marie Presley received a present that's as much a statement of intent as a birthday gift.
It was a ring emblazoned with the letters LMFP - Lisa Marie F...ing Presley - and she's wearing it the day of our interview.
To even a casual observer, it seems a perfect fit: the wild, obnoxious child who ruled Graceland with an impetuous fist while her father slept; the hazy, drug-fuelled teenager who roamed the LA club scene; the serial bride whose three marriages ended in divorce.
Yes, there's a certain don't-mess-with-me attitude on display here.
But the reality is, as always, infinitely more complex than the gossip would lead us to believe, for Lisa Marie Presley is a confessed "shy and insecure" woman, whose "dominant" veneer has been shaped by forces beyond her control.
Before the release of her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, Presley rarely spoke to the press. Hers was an image of smoke and mirrors concocted by the pressure of magazine deadlines. And although she admits to sometimes reading her own press, even she was surprised to discover the public's perception of her.
"It's sort of funny because I hear all these people saying, 'I heard you did a record and I was pretty sceptical'. And I was like, 'What in the hell are people thinking about me?'.
"It was kind of listening to that and other comments that I realised there's a really horrifying, sensationalistic view of me, that I'm some idiot or something. I don't quite know what it is but it's kinda turning right now."
As boss of Elvis Presley Enterprises, her father's $A244 million estate, Lisa Marie is charged with the task of marketing her father's image and music while preserving his dignity.
"It is," she says, "one of the most important things I have to deal with, not just business-wise, but emotionally.
"One thing he had was a lot of pride and dignity and if anybody tries to take it away, I'm kind of hardcore with that."
So was her avoiding the press a conscious decision not to cash in on her father's heritage?
"That's kind of helped and hindered me because there was nothing for me to say, particularly, for any reason other than capitalising on something, which I was never gonna do," she says.
"So it was just like this tornado took this life of its own, of an image of me, a perception of me. It had a life of its own and I don't think I realised how dramatic that was until I actually came out and started talking. And then most people were like, 'Oh, you're not some whatever I was thinking'."
Many people have been surprised by Presley's decision to release an album so late in life. After all, she was on the verge of signing a record deal with Sony when she was 18.
"If I was doing it for superficial reasons I should have [released it earlier]. But music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything and it always moves me - so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them, and use my art with my own fingerprint in it.
"It was for that reason, not for any other. I don't particularly want or like attention on me because I've had it all my life, so I needed to find a right time.
"I've been through enough in my time where I've needed to outlet it. If I can do that in a way where I'm going to touch others and affect others then I'd rather do it like that."
To Whom It May Concern is a roots rock album with a metallic hide and Presley's deep, smoky voice, which invites comparisons with Sheryl Crow and Shelby Lynne, is dark and soulful. But it's her cathartic lyrics - which touch on everything from her father to her failed relationships to her two children - that are the album's centrepiece.
"The whole thing was a purging process for me. I've done that since I was 20, just written to get through stuff on my own.
Then I'd just play it for my friends or my family but I never had any intention of doing anything with any of it.
"But I just got to the point where I needed to use the record to outlet a lot of the things in me. That's the whole reason I write - to purge whatever I'm going through."
Although any vocal similarity with Elvis is probably more imagined than real, the album's darker tone does reflects her own taste in her father's music - not that she listens to him a lot.
"Sometimes I do. I have to kind of get into a mindset, a certain headspace, I definitely do. I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to
the darker, sadder songs."
In music, as in men, Presley is attracted to the dark side.
"I'm drawn to artists. I'm drawn to people who rattle, who shake things up. I'm definitely attracted to that. I don't like mediocrity. I like people who are different, tortured. I like people that are shaken up and that aren't status quo.
"And that's the problem. You get attracted to them and there's just another side - it's attractive but it's also destructive."
But of all the men in her life, there is one who towers over the others and who still rattles and informs her world 25 years after his death. Her father.
"I just adored him and the ground he walked on," she says. "I looked up to him and you know he... what's the word I'm looking for? They're some tough shoes to fill, in my mind. My impression of him can probably explain some of my insanity in looking for a perfect male (laughs) in my life."
Recalling a childhood memory, there's a sense that Presley takes comfort from the fact her new career would have his blessing.
"I remember him (laughs) watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front."
To Whom It May Concern is out now.
Lisa Marie Presley starts gigging in America this week, but there are no immediate plans for her to bring her band to Australia.
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(Apr.24, 2003) (Apr.23, 2003)
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MANIPULATING JACKO'S 'HOME MOVIES'
Michael Jackson has film editors burning the midnight oil making last-minute changes in his documentary "Private Home Movies" - thanks to Lisa Marie Presley, reports MSNBC.com. "Michael has been following very closely what ex-wife Lisa Marie has been saying about him while she promotes her album," says a source close to the project. "And every time she says he's a certain way, he has the editors tear up the documentary and re-edit it to prove her wrong." For example, says the insider, Lisa Marie said he was a control freak, and Jackson "has everybody stick in all this footage that was meant to show what a laid-back, easy-going guy he is." "Private Home Movies" is set to air from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday on Fox, so, says the source, "we're really working down to the wire on this one." The latest edit, according to the insider: "Lisa Marie said something about him being very focused on his kids, so now the editors were told: less kiddies, more vintage Jacko." |
(Apr.22, 2003)
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Liz Smith:
No diva, Lisa Marie is true royalty
LISA MARIE PRESLEY arrived an hour late for her scheduled performance of tunes from her new CD at "AOL Live" in Hollywood over the weekend. But jitters about having to deal with a difficult diva evaporated when the recording star (we can legitimately call her that now!) finally appeared, sexy in head-to-toe denim, cowboy boots and red-tinted shades. Sans bodyguards, she submitted to a quick touch-up, schmoozed with her bandmates and sat right down to sing. When a wobbly floor mike bopped her in the nose, she laughed.
Unlike other stars who demand all sorts of perks in advance, Lisa Marie arrived with her own cooler of goodies. She drank hot tea.
Lisa Marie had a personal videographer taping her every move and gave directions on how she preferred to be shot - "Stay off the side of me, you can shoot the front but not the side." (These candid moments will be the stuff of home movies, and perhaps her next music video.) She also asked to do one song over, requested a handheld microphone and at one point said, "Wait! I can't hear myself!" But these remarks were stated matter-of-factly, quietly, politely, without attitude.
One 20-year music insider said of Lisa Marie's performance that day:
And Lisa Marie contributes more than her voice to the work at hand. She knows everything connected with the business. It was Lisa Marie who suggested that her single, "Lights Out," be done without the full band, preferring only acoustics and her smoky vocal for this session. "Let's do something different for AOL!" she said.
Lisa Marie's Capitol CD, "To Whom It May Concern," did quite respectably in its first week, coming in at No. 5 on Billboard's album charts.
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(Apr.22, 2003)
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98.1 CHFI FM in Toronto
Lisa Interview (MP3 file) |
(Apr.22, 2003)
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Presley's Mom Discouraged Her From Music
Singer's Mom Said She Had 'Big Shoes To Fill'
NEW YORK -- If Priscilla Presley had had her way, Lisa Marie Presley may not have ever released an album.
Lisa Marie Presley says she started singing when she was 3 and playing guitar and drums as a teenager, but she says her mom didn't encourage
her to pursue it.
Presley says her mom told her, "You have some big shoes to fill."
Presley gave up music until her marriage to Michael Jackson started falling apart. Producer David Foster is the one who got her back on track, but he admits he wanted her to make a duet album like Natalie Cole did with her father.
Presley says her mom was right -- she does have big shoes to fill -- but she says she has to not worry about that or she'll live in fear.
Presley's album, "To Whom It May Concern," is in stores now.
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Lisa Marie faces the music
by Larry Rodgers, The Arizona Republic, Apr. 20, 2003 12:00 AM
Although she has been writing music since age 21, Lisa Marie Presley waite d 14 more years to follow her famous father's footsteps into the recording studio.
She acknowledges Elvis' influence on her love of music but says her new album, To Whom It May Concern, has been shaped more by a roller coaster of events since his 1977 death.
Her rocking debut single, Lights Out, contains a chilling reference to the famed Graceland mansion ("That's where my family's buried and gone / Last time I was there I noticed a space left next to them"), but other songs have been inspired by her failed marriages to singer Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage, as well as her love for her two children.
Living in Los Angeles with Danielle, 13, and Ben, 10, Presley hasfinally accepted one of the many recording offers she hasreceived over the years. Her rock-flavored, emotionally rawalbum is debuting at No. 5 on the latest Billboard 200 chart.
Why wait till you were 35 to make this record?
I wasn't ready emotionally. I think after my divorce (from Cage) I was at an aimless point, and it just kind of happened. People were offering (record deals) . . . but it was one of those things where I didn't have a purpose quite yet. So I used this record as an outlet.
Was it hard to resist putting a record out earlier to respond to everything the media have said about you?
Not really. My thing is that I don't like attention particularly, so it's not hard for me to stay out of the limelight.
Does it concern you that some people are interested in this CD due to your celebrity status, rather than its musical merits?
That's why the album is titled To Whom It May Concern. That's going to be something difficult for me to get past, but I have to try.
Does that celebrity status place the bar higher for this album?
Absolutely. There's a lot more pressure on me. People think it's easier, but it's actually not, because there are people who want to immediately throw you the curve because of the celebrity part of it, which I understand. But that's not something that I really had anything to do with creating.
Your father died when you were 9. Could you share one memory involving him and music that remains special to you?
He would have me get on the coffee table and sing, wake me up in the middle of the night for that.
Your mother (actress Priscilla Presley) had some misgiving about your music career. Did she give you advice?
Not really. I just kind of did my thing. . . . I think she was worried, didn't know what I had in me and wasn't sure if I was trying to fill some shoes that were too big. When she saw the seriousness with which I was going at it, she was, from what I could see, somewhat blown away.
Why have you chosen to be so open about yourself in these songs?
Why not? I don't respond to music that's not honest, and music's had a huge influence on my whole life. It's gotten me through everything. I don't respond to music that's full of crap, so I wasn't going to write (that kind of) record. Since it's also a therapeutic and cathartic thing for me to write, I'm not going to go halfway or be some puffball.
Has this record allowed you to say things to people from your past that you haven't been able to say before?
No, no. This was for me and whoever is a music lover who is interested in hearing the record and being moved by it, or not.
Your musical style is upfront and pulls no punches. Is that how you are away from the recording studio, too?
I would think so. That's what I hear. (Laughs.)
You've said you dove deeply into writing after your divorce from Michael Jackson. Was that due to the stress you were under?
That's kind of how I get through everything: I start writing. But none of those songs ended up on the record, believe it or not. For the first year or two of my writing after that, every song was about that. Then I got bored of it and started having other things going on in my life that I was much more amused by or affected by, and it ended up taking over. I ended up throwing (the earlier songs) aside.
Do songs such as S.O.B., Sinking In and Important relate to Michael? It also seems that Gone refers to Nicolas.
Maybe some references and a concept here or there, but nothing specific. I'm not really answering (questions of) who they're about. When I'm listening to records and (the songwriter) tells me what they were thinking, I hate it, because I can't interpret it for myself.
Did Michael show any interest toward your musical side during your marriage?
I didn't have any musical interests particularly at that point. I wasn't planning to do anything, contrary to popular belief at the time. I had no interest in a record. I was more interested in trying to be a wife, trying to be supportive and basking in the idea that someone else was even more in the limelight than I was.
So Lovely is about your children (from her first marriage, to Danny Keough). Its final line says, "Don't do as I do." What are you referring to?
I guess having kids when you're young, you have to grow up with them. I had my daughter at 21. They had to watch me go through stuff. It's like, "I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes."
What do your children think about Mom cutting a CD and filming a music video?
They like it, but they have other things going on in their minds. They have their friends and their own interests, which is good. They're not all wrapped up in me.
Are you venturing back out into the world of dating?
I have a lot of friends I hang out with, but there's nothing massive going. I'm just focusing on the career right now.
With your plans to tour this year, are you intimidated by the thought of playing in large halls, or are you looking forward to that?
I need to get more used to it, because I've been thrown out there quickly. I need to get my chops live. If it's not a high-pressure situation and just a crowd that wants to see me, I'm usually fine. If it's TV, critics, then I freak out.
Do you consider yourself a happy person these days?
Yes. I've produced something that was mine, that I'm proud of, so it helps me hold my head up a bit higher. It's not based on some other B.S. that I'm getting attention. I get attention for the right reasons, which makes me happy with the record.
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