Lisa Marie Presley’s life was a very American tragedy. The only child of rock ’n’ roll’s King, she seemed predestined to spend her days overshadowed by her origins. Born in 1968, her own journey through life included a stab at rock stardom,

There were so many times that I found him down on the floor or unable to control his body very well,” Lisa Marie Presley writes of her father, Elvis, in her posthumous new memoir.

Elvis, who died in 1977, didn't live to see his grandchildren. If he had lived, he would have had multiple reasons to smile: Lisa Marie had four children — three daughters (including twins) and a son. Lisa Marie had two children with Danny Keough, a musician who was the first of her four husbands.