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Lisa Presley Promises To Return
By: Elvis.com.au - March 29, 2004
Source: Sunday Herald-Sun

From the Sunday Herald-Sun - Melbourne - March 28, 2004

The King is gone, but his daughter intends to be back - or at least that is the promise Lisa Marie Presley made to fans after the final show of her Australian tour last Sunday.

Performing at the Crown Palladium, Presley and her band pulled off a gutsy and surprisingly moving show, with Elvis's daughter showered by gifts, flowers and the occasional marriage proposal, from the reverent audience.

But the show did not stop after the stage lights went down.

Unlike many touring acts who choose hot night spots, exclusive clubs, pricey bars or five-star restaurants to wind down in after their show, Presley, her mum Priscilla, band and entourage kept the party going at P.J. O'Brien's pub at Southgate.

In true rock-star fashion, mother and daughter were chauffeured in separate cars the one block from Crown Towers to Southgate, arriving about 11.30pm.

Presley and her party of 30 did not book the venue, nor request a private VIP section.

Instead they mingled with drinkers, danced to the house band and Presley enjoyed a couple of pints of Guinness.

Among the revellers were a 100-strong Welsh choir that was passing through Melbourne.

"At one stage there were about 100 blokes standing around serenading her in Welsh," recalled an observer.

"I don't think she had a clue what they were going on about, but she enjoyed it.

"There were some pretty happy Irish people going up and chatting to her and she did not seem to mind."

After the band finished its set, Presley started requesting songs - nothing by Elvis -- though she resisted the temptation to get up on stage and join the jam.

Presley left the building about 4am, telling her fellow carousers that she was nine songs into her next album, which is being produced by Grammy winner Linda Perry, and planned to be back in Melbourne in September.