Elvis Presley was honored Wednesday night time (Nov. 29) with NBC’s inaugural Christmas at Graceland particular, govt produced by the late legend’s granddaughter, Daisy Jones & The Six star Riley Keough.
The stay televised live performance marked the primary of its type to ever be filmed from contained in the Elvis’ well-known Memphis property, and featured performances from a number of A-list artists. Most of them put their very own spin on one in every of Elvis’ many hits, though a pair sang some traditional non-Elvis Christmas tunes. All of them, nonetheless, ushered within the vacation season by singing in entrance of varied festive backdrops arrange on the grounds of Graceland.
The manufacturing comes at an fascinating time in Elvis’ legacy, following within the footsteps of two practically back-to-back main movement footage about The King’s life. Earlier this 12 months, Sofia Coppola’s movie Priscilla — govt produced by the musician’s ex-wife Priscilla Presley, whose memoir Elvis and Me impressed the screenplay — portrayed Elvis in a a lot much less reverent gentle than Baz Luhrmann’s rosy 2022 Elvis biopic.
Christmas at Graceland can also be marked by the January dying of Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’ solely baby and the mom of Riley and Benjamin Keough, and twins Harper and Finley Lockwood. A distinguished singer-songwriter in her personal proper, she handed away at 54 years outdated resulting from issues from a bariatric surgical procedure she’d obtained years prior, in response to the post-mortem report.
With that in thoughts, it is sensible that Graceland might have wanted a bit of additional cheer this 12 months. Up to the duty had been Lana Del Rey, Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, War and Treaty, Alanis Morissette and John Legend, with Riley herself showing onscreen sometimes.
If you missed the particular because it aired stay, don’t fear: The full occasion is now streaming on Peacock. Or, see beneath for movies of all of the Christmas at Graceland performances.
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