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| Lisa Marie Presley Announces Fall Club Tour Lisa Marie Presley will hit the road again this fall on the second leg of her "Now What Tour" kicking off on November 6th in Portland, Oregon. Now What, the follow-up to her 2003 Gold debut, To Whom It May Concern, debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200 earlier this year. A video for the new spitfire rocker single, "Idiot, " was filmed in Los Angeles this week. Patrick Hoelck is the director. His credits include videos for Alicia Keys, Ben Harper and the first single from Lisa Marie's CD, "Dirty Laundry." Sex Pistols guitarist and infamous Los Angeles deejay Steve Jones is featured on the single. Presley is actively participating in numerous Recording Academy events including; The Recording Academy Honors in Memphis where she will present a special award to Isaac Hayes on October 22. She will also join the GRAMMY Foundation to participate in a GRAMMY "Sound-Check" on November 11th at LA's House of Blues, during which she and other industry professionals will meet with a group of music students to discuss career opportunities available to them within the music industry and she is actively involved in the MusiCares Hurricane Relief effort. She will also be the Grand Marshall at a special Memphis NASCAR event on October 22. Now What is a personal and powerful collection of songs. Presley wrote the lyrics for 10 of its tracks, collaborating with Linda Perry and others on the music. The album is touched by joy and love ("Thanx, " inspired by her close-knit circle of friends, ) "Raven, " (a moving tribute to her mother, Priscilla Presley) and naked anger on cultural matters in the super-charged version of Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry." Since its release, Presley has appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, " "Late Show With David Letterman, " "The Oprah Winfrey Show, " "Good Morning America, " "The Ellen DeGeneres Show, " "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and "Larry King Live." She was also recently the subject of a VH1 "(Inside)Out" documentary and a DIRECTV FREEVIEW® event, "Lisa Marie Presley In Concert." write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |