For example, it can’t buy Eve Jobs a happy love life, at least not at the moment. The 24-year-old model recently broke up with Drew Taggart, and the Chainsmokers DJ has already started a romance with Selena Gomez, an even more famous celebrity who happens to share his musical interests, Us Weekly reported.

This news about Taggart and Gomez, which came via Us Weekly on Monday, apparently prompted Jobs to deactivate her Instagram account, just a few weeks after she posted a tribute to Taggart in December, celebrating his 33rd birthday, Page Six said. She gushed in a caption,  “Happy birthday lover.”

Jobs, an accomplished equestrian whose mother is Laurene Powell Jobs, and Taggart reportedly started what Us Weekly described as a “casual summer fling” last year. The romance supposedly fizzled by the end of the year, though Us Weekly said the split was “totally amicable.”

Still, it must be disconcerting for Jobs to have her private life caught up in the maw of celebrity news, especially as Taggart and Gomez, 30, started their romance so quickly and are not “trying to hide” it, a source told Us Weekly.

Gomez is “so affectionate” with Taggart and “can hardly keep her hands off him,” the source also said. Still, the two are trying to keep the relationship “very casual and low-key” while they are “having lots of fun together.”

Gomez’s love life has been the subject of celebrity gossip for years. The singer has experienced her shares of high and lows when it comes to her love life, particularly her high-profile, on-off romance with Justin Bieber from 2011 to 2018. On one of her breaks from Bieber, she dated The Weeknd for nine months in 2017. She’s also been linked to Niall Horan, Zedd and Charlie Puth.

“I feel like giving myself completely to something is the best way I can love,” Gomez said in an interview in November for Jay Shetty‘s “On Purpose” podcast. “But I never wanted the pain that I endured to put some sort of guard on myself — an armor if you will — and I never let that happen because I still believe and I still hope. … I would rather continue to get my heart broken than to not feel at all.”

Eve Jobs previously dated singer-songwriter Harry Hudson, who’s pals of Kylie Jenner and Jaden Smith.

It’s been a season of discovery for the great American mezzo-soprano, and she says that’s just how she likes it.

DiDonato, who earned international acclaim in opera roles such as Rosina in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” — a role she has sung many times, around the world, to perfection — has just finished singing the role of Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” The new opera by composer Kevin Puts, which also featured singers Renee Fleming and Kelli O’Hara, made its staged world premiere to rave reviews in November at the Metropolitan Opera.

Now DiDonato’s returning to the Bay Area with a new program, “Eden,” a semi-staged concert focusing on climate, the natural world, and our place in it. Directed by Marie Lambert-Le Bihan and conducted by Zefira Valova, it features DiDonato and the Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro in a program spanning early music to a new work by English composer Rachel Portman. Performances are scheduled at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

In a recent phone conversation, it was easy to hear DiDonato’s excitement about the project, which she said is both a reflection on the beauties of the natural world and a call to action to preserve them.

“We launched this work in the spring, in Brussels, and we did a handful of festival performances at the end of the summer,” she said. “It’s been the most special project of my career. It feels so timely to be talking about our connection to each other, and to the world around us.”

DiDonato says the project was inspired in part by an earlier program, “In War and Peace: Harmony through Music,” which she performed with Il Pomo d’Oro at Stanford in 2016.

This program is “an extension, if not quite a sequel” to “War and Peace,” she said. “But it’s certainly connected. There was a quote by Jonathan Larson that said ‘the opposite of war is not peace, it’s creation.’ I don’t think it was conscious, when I came up with the title ‘Eden.’ But it’s directly related — that this is about creation, about asking ‘What are we participating in, in the creation from day to day life that we’re living now?’”

The music for the program opens with Ives’s “The Unanswered Question” and closes with Mahler’s autumnal “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.” In between are works by Cavalli, Handel, Copland and others — along with Portman’s newly composed “Eden.” DiDonato said she’s thrilled with the results.

“When we were setting up the repertoire for this concert, we all wanted to get outside of the Baroque world and go in whatever direction we felt the music would take us,” she said. “I don’t think anyone thought it would take us to Ives, but there we are.”

Portman’s new work, created specifically for this project, exceeded expectations, DiDonato added. “It’s been a joy to work with her,” she said.

“I wanted to commission a piece primarily because the idea of Eden is really all about creation, coming back to creative power in the natural world. And I really wanted to tap into the feminine power — again, Eden being very much about the garden, about Mother Nature, about that idea of nourishment and bringing new life into the world.”

“Rachel created this beautiful soundscape of something that is emerging,” DiDonato added. “We knew that we wanted it to follow the Ives, and she had that composition in mind as well. So we end up with this beautiful seamless start to the concert that really lets people know we’re going to take them on a kind of narrative journey. Every time the music starts, I get so excited, because I know the audience is going to be hearing something so nurturing and beautiful.”

As part of “Eden”’s development, DiDonato has been leading workshops with students — seeking to re-build connections to “nature in its extraordinary balance.”

“You know, I had intended to be a teacher, before I got sidetracked in opera,” she said. “So to have this opportunity to merge that idea of working with kids, elevating them in their lives, has been extraordinary. And to bring this project, which I think in terms of repertoire really shows where I am after twenty-some years in my career, spanning four centuries and loving all the nooks and crannies of this repertoire I’ve been able to do over my career, just feels like such a full-circle moment in every element of what I love about the possibilities of singing.”

Contact Georgia Rowe at growe@pacbell.net.

‘EDEN’

Featuring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato

When & where: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University (presented by Stanford Live); $15-$48; livestanford.edu; 8 p.m. Jan. 21at  Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley (presented by Cal Performances); $18-$86; calperformances.org.

The famed Material Girl is celebrating four decades of music with the newly announced Madonna: The Celebration Tour.

The tour includes two stops in California.

Madonna performs Sept. 27 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and Oct. 4 at Chase Center in San Francisco.

Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Jan. 20; madonna.com/tour.

The 35-city U.S. and European trek kicks off July 15th at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC.

“I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for,” Madonna says in a news release.

Bob the Drag Queen, a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicue, will also be on the bill as a “special guest.”

Here are the tour dates .

Sat Jul 15 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena

Tue Jul 18 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

Sat Jul 22 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center

Tue Jul 25 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena

Thu Jul 27 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center

Sun Jul 30 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center

Wed Aug 02 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse

Sat Aug 05 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

Mon. Aug 07 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena

Wed Aug 09 – Chicago, IL – United Center

Sun Aug 13 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena

Sat Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – Centre Bell

Wed Aug 23 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Thu Aug 24 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Wed Aug 30 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

Sat Sep 02 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena

Tue Sep 05 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena

Thu Sep 07 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena

Sat Sep 09 – Miami, FL – Miami-Dade Arena

Wed Sep 13 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center

Mon Sep 18 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center

Thu Sep 21 – Austin, TX – Moody Center ATX

Wed Sep 27 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

Wed Oct 04 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center

Sat Oct 07 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena

Sat Oct 14 – London, UK – The O2

Sat Oct 21 – Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis

Wed. Oct. 25 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena

Sat Oct 28 – Stockholm, SE – Tele2 Arena

Wed Nov 01 – Barcelona, ES – Palau Sant Jordi

Mon Nov 06 – Lisbon, PT – Altice Arena

Sun Nov 12 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena

Mon Nov 13 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena

Wed Nov 15 – Cologne, DE – Lanxess Arena

Thu Nov 23 – Milan, IT – Mediolanum Forum

Tue Nov 28 – Berlin, DE – Mercedes-Benz Arena

Fri Dec 1 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome

The girls, Finley and Harper, are too traumatized to return to the Calabasas home where their mother suffered a fatal cardiac arrest Jan. 12, TMZ reported. Meanwhile, their father, Michael Lockwood, may be gearing up to go to court to demand full custody, TMZ also reported. If so, he would reignite a bitter years-long custody battle that involved a trial, ferocious disputes about money and allegations about Presley’s acknowledged substance abuse problems and mental anguish following the 2020 suicide of her 27-year-old son Benjamin Keough, as the Daily Mail reported.

Praying for Priscilla Presley, Riley, Finley and Harper pic.twitter.com/9IgDowCdmD

— Ms. Venable (@FrozenInScream) January 13, 2023

These contentious legal issues may be temporarily put aside as Presley’s family prepare to honor her with a public memorial service Sunday at Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee estate that Presley inherited from her father, Elvis Presley. “Riley, Harper, Finley and Priscilla are grateful for the support, well-wishes, and outpouring of love honoring their beloved Lisa Marie,” a representative for Riley Keough said in a statement to People.

Presley died last week after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital for a reported cardiac arrest. She was 54. People said that Presley’s final resting place will be Graceland’s Meditation Garden, where Elvis Presley and her son, Benjamin, also are buried.

People magazine also confirmed that Presley’s three daughters will inherit Graceland, which Rolling Stone estimated is worth about $500 million, because it is open to the public for tours and other events.

After Elvis died in 1977, the estate was placed in a trust to benefit 9-year-old Lisa Marie, and now that trust will be passed to Riley Keough and teenagers Harper and Finley Lockwood. https://t.co/V5JZcTB9jt

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 17, 2023

Since Presley’s death, Finley and Harper have been spending a lot of time at the Los Angeles home of their grandmother, Priscilla Presley, TMZ said. Their older half-sister, actor Riley Keough, has been spending time there as well, while Lockwood has “been central” to making sure the girls’ needs are met during this difficult time.

However, Lockwood is determined that the girls will ultimately live with him, TMZ said. Presley and Lockwood were married in 2006. After Presley filed for divorce in 2016, the estranged couple became locked in a dispute over custody and money. As recently as November, the exes were in court fighting over financial support and attorneys’ fees, according to The Blast.

Sources connected to the Presley family told TMZ that Lockwood will definitely go to court to get full custody. “It’ll be a cold day in hell before he gives up custody of those children,” a source close to Lockwood told TMZ

Complications could arise if Danny Keough, Presley’s other ex-husband, decides to make a case for custody, TMZ said. Presley and Danny Keough were married from 1988 to 1994, and the couple and the twins were living together at the time of her sudden death, TMZ said. Keough came to regard himself as the girls’ stepfather. Some family members also told TMZ that Riley Keough or Priscilla Presley might make a bid for custody.

A family member told TMZ that Harris was taken to a hospital via ambulance but died following a suspected heart attack on Sunday in Jasper, Alabama.

Harris placed sixth in ‘Idol’ season 13 — which aired on Fox in 2014 — giving his takes on Darius Rucker’s “Radio,” John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change,” and Ray LaMontagne’s “Shelter,” among his other performances on the show.

“You sing ‘cause you have to sing, not ‘cause you want to sing,” ‘Idol’ judge Keith Urban told Harris during the competition. ‘And I mean that in the deepest way. And that’s why it’s so believable and real.”

Harris followed his ‘American Idol’ run with a performance with Rucker at the Grand Ole Opry and an ‘Idol’ concert tour with other season 13 contestants.

“I grew up in the church, playing gospel music and singing in the choir. I guess I was a little nervous to go on ‘Idol,’ because I didn’t know if I was prepared. I didn’t have the training,” Harris told AL.com in 2015. “Now, when I get on stage in front of these crowds, it doesn’t matter if I have my eyes closed. I don’t have to keep a camera view. I can calm down, relax and be myself. Ever since I was a little boy, I wanted to see those lights on stage. Every time I get into my bed right after a show, I still can’t believe I’ve been on stage. I’m having a lot more fun than I did on the TV show.”

The singer remained active on social media before his death, posting a selfie to Twitter on Sunday and sharing a TikTok video of himself performing The Fray’s “How to Save a Life” in late December.

“When I’m behind the microphone, I let everything go and let the music flow through me,” Harris previously wrote in his Facebook bio, per AL.com. “My friends, family, and fans have always supported me and always had my back, and I can never repay them for the love they have shown me.”

Cordeiro died Friday, according to Radio Television Hong Kong, where he worked until 2021. It gave no cause of death.

Cordeiro, who was born in Hong Kong in 1924 of Portuguese descent, was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest-working DJ.

He joined Hong Kong’s public broadcaster in 1960 after working as a prison warden and bank clerk. His “All the Way With Ray” show of easy listening music was on RTHK Radio 3 for 51 years until his retirement.

“The audience followed me, grew up with me, and they’re all over the world now,” Cordeiro told The Associated Press in 2021 after his retirement. “They still listened to me on the internet.”

Cordeiro interviewed the Beatles, then the world’s biggest music act, in 1964 following a study course in London with the British Broadcasting Corp. He said John Lennon recounted their early days in Hamburg, Germany, where they lived in relative poverty and played in clubs.

Cordeiro said all four members of the Beatles autographed a magazine cover for him.

The broadcast of the Beatles interview on Hong Kong radio made Cordeiro a celebrity. He also interviewed other stars and met Elton John and Tony Bennett.

El Campanil Theatre’s Lobby Series starts this year at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 with Nashville, Tennessee, recording artist Andy Kahrs and “Always On My Mind: A Country Songbook.”

A cross-country move to San Francisco deepened the love and longing for his Southern roots and now, comfortably based in Nashville, a seasoned blend of blues, country, and bluegrass can be heard in his recorded music and live shows. Visit elcampaniltheatre.com online for tickets, which are $20 each.

— El Campanil Theatre

BRENTWOOD

Community chorus seeks new members for spring season

The Brentwood Community Chorus, under the direction of Susan Stuart, is preparing for its spring season and looking for new members. The chorus meets from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays at Brentwood Community United Methodist Church and is open to all ages and abilities.

If it sounds like fun, but you’re afraid you can’t commit to every Tuesday, organizers have a solution. Rehearsal tracks are provided when you register so you can practice on your own. Registration information is available online at brentwoodcommunitychorus.com.

— Brentwood Community Chorus

WALNUT CREEK

Audition Jan. 23 for Diablo Women’s Chorale’s new season

Diablo Women’s Chorale begins its new season on Jan. 23, and will hold auditions by appointment that evening from 6 to 9 p.m. The group encourages any woman with a love of music and spirited company to audition. Choral experience and music-reading ability are pluses but not required.

Full rehearsals are Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Walnut Creek United Methodist Church at 1543 Sunnyvale Ave. For information on membership and auditions, visit DiabloWomensChorale.org/join-us online or contact membership chair Nancy Hickman at 925-899-5050 or hickmandg@gmail.com.

— Diablo Women’s Chorale

See Valley Art Gallery’s ‘Wintermission’ exhibit till Feb. 4

“Wintermission,” Valley Art Gallery’s new show-between-shows, features selected works by gallery artists designed to warm and brighten even the longest, darkest winter days. Reflecting a wide range of styles, prices, motifs and media, it continues the gallery’s mission of presenting the best of the best from more than 100 East Bay artists.  Also on hand is a juried selection of locally created, one-of-a-kind fine crafts and jewelry. It will continue through Feb. 4.

“Wintermission” will be followed by an exhibit featuring the well-known East Bay artist Maralyn Miller. Miller works primarily in oils and pastels, painting the golden, rolling hills of California and depicting the rhythm of the lights and shadows as they sweep across the horizon. Her show will open Feb. 7 and run until March 18.

At 1661 Botelho Drive, Suite 110, in Walnut Creek, the Valley Art Gallery is free and open to the public from 11 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. For more information, go to valleyartgallery.org, call 925-935-4311 or e-mail valleyartgallery@gmail.com.

— Valley Art Gallery

Bedford Gallery to host Fong’s ‘Sensation of Color’ exhibit

The Bedford Gallery will soon present “Erin Fong: The Sensation of Color,” an exhibition that explores how the world’s myriad hues inform day-to-day experiences in subtle, often unconscious ways.

Through dedicated experimentation, the Bay Area artist and letterpress printer delves into how color affects emotional responses. “The Sensation of Color” will transform the Bedford Gallery into a vibrant lab full of the artist’s prints, paintings and installations. Visitors will be invited to tap into their individual and collective experience as they are immersed in hues across the spectrum, considering how colors make people feel and how they foster human connection.

This exhibition will feature several immersive installations, including “The Color Corridor,” a 17-foot maze that gradually changes color, allowing viewers to gauge how their feelings and mood change as they journey through it; and “Color Communion,” a large-scale sensory experience that incorporates light and sound components to let visitors further connect with themselves and the colors that surround them. Paintings and prints from Fong’s studio practice will also be highlighted.

The exhibit is on view from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday now through April 2 at the Bedford Gallery inside the Lesher Center for the Arts at 1601 Civic Drive in Walnut Creek. For more information or to purchase tickets ($5 for general admission and free for Bedford Gallery members and children younger than 13), visit bedfordgallery.org online. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.

— Bedford Gallery

ORINDA

‘My Sailor, My Love’ showing for a week starting Friday

The Orinda Theatre will present the premiere of “My Sailor, My Love,” a co-production from Finland and Ireland, for one week starting Friday. Klaus Haro (“The Fencer,” “Elina”) directed this touching English-language film.

“My Sailor, My Love” is a story about a guilt-affected daughter-father relationship, but it’s also a love story between two elderly people, proving that a new beginning is never too late. The film centers around Howard, a retired sea captain who refuses any help from his daughter, Grace. When she hires Annie as domestic help for him, Howard unexpectedly falls in love. He gives all his affection to Annie and her family but rejects his own daughter. For more information, go to internationalshowcase.org.

— International Film Showcase

DANVILLE

Art gallery’s clay art, technology exhibit to open Jan. 21

The Village Theatre Art Gallery will start the new year with an exhibit featuring examples of different applications in clay alongside detailed information on the process of how they were made and how they are used.

“From Sand to Silicon Chip: New Technology in Clay” will open Jan. 21 and will be curated by longtime Bay Area resident John Toki, who has had a robust career as an artist, arts educator and lecturer and has been the recipient of many accolades and awards.

The exhibit will feature a comprehensive examination of the many uses of clay, how technology has been used to advance clay and vice versa. “From Sand to Silicon Chip” will run through March 18 with an artists’ opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Jan. 21 in the Village Theatre Art Gallery at 233 Front St. in Danville. Toki will be at the reception along with exhibiting artists and engineers. A date for a panel discussion will be announced in January.

The Village Theatre Art Gallery is open Wednesdays through Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Viewings are available by appointment Monday and Tuesday. For more information, contact Visual Arts Coordinator Marija Nelson Bleier at 925-314-3460 or mnelsonbleier@danville.ca.gov. Exhibit details are available online at danville.ca.gov/artgallery.

— Village Theatre Art Gallery

LIVERMORE

Bankhead Theatre offers taste of Broadway this month

Livermore Valley Arts is continuing a January packed with hits in the new year with a taste of the Great White Way (the iconic lights of Broadway) in the Tri-Valley. From a comedy stacked with Broadway-level talents in “Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23 to a current Broadway star, Jessica Vosk from “Wicked” at 8 p.m. Jan. 27, the Bankhead will bring some dazzling live theater offerings for the community in this first month of the year.

Both of these performances will be at the Bankhead Theater. Tickets are $2 to $80 for “Lucy Loves Desi” and $55 to $65 for the Vosk show. Call 925-373-6800 or go to livermorearts.org/event-list.

— Livermore Valley Arts

Submit area arts-and-entertainment On Tap items to Judith Prieve at jprieve@bayareanewsgroup.com.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — She was dubbed a “rock princess,” but Lisa Marie Presley staked her own musical claim as a singer-songwriter, allowing her to express herself apart from — but sometimes alongside — her megastar father.

Presley, who died Thursday at 54, bore a heavy weight: The daughter of musical royalty, the face of the Elvis estate and fodder for tabloid gossip about her marriages.

There was no question music would be a center point of her life, starting when she was a child singing for her father, the King with the unmistakable voice.

“He’s always been a huge influence on me my whole life always. It’s the first thing I ever heard,” she told The Associated Press in 2012.

As the sole heir of Elvis’ estate, her early life was defined by the Elvis brand and her role building that legacy with her mother Priscilla. That often meant Elvis fans put their own feelings about her father and his music onto her and Priscilla.

Charles Hughes, an author and director of the Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center at Rhodes College in Memphis, noted that Presley faced sexism and racism in the tabloids — and among some Elvis fans — throughout her life, especially surrounding her relationship to another icon, Michael Jackson.

“There are very few people I can think of who had to do what she did … being the Presleys’ daughter, but being Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and being a mother and being in the public eye as long and as complicatedly as she was,” said Hughes.

She was 35 and a mother when her debut album “To Whom It May Concern” came out in 2003. The music was in the vein of the rock-pop sound influenced by Sheryl Crow, her sultry alto over distorted guitars and raw dark lyrics that hinted at her past relationships.

“The daring thing about her music, the daring thing about her recording career, the daring thing about her was her willingness to speak her truth,” said Joe Levy, editor at large at Billboard. “The songs on those first two records are more challenging, more daring, and more exciting for their lyrics than for their music.”

The album was well-received and certified gold, even though she didn’t play publicly very much, and it hit No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her first single “Lights Out” reached a No. 18 peak on Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay. Over her career, she sold 836,000 albums, while her songs have drawn 9.5 million official streams in the U.S., according to Luminate.

Hughes said he still regularly plays the “Lights Out” music video for his students when he teaches about Elvis.

“It is such a compelling and a complicated take on the legacy and on her role in it. It’s not about him. I mean, it is, but it’s really about her,” said Hughes.

But doing press interviews in 2005 to promote her second album, “Now What,” meant being subjected to an endless barrage of questions about Jackson and her third husband Nicholas Cage, rather than the music.

Author Steve Baltin, who interviewed her several times over her career, said within music circles Presley was able to be herself and be accepted for her own talent. During her career, she worked with Pink, T Bone Burnett, Linda Perry, Richard Hawley, Ed Harcourt and many more.

“She was very respected as a musician, and while everybody else saw her as Elvis’ daughter, people in music loved her and they appreciated the fact that, one, she was talented, but two, she really supported music,” said Baltin.

Her third album, “Storm & Grace,” came out in 2012, after a period in which Presley had moved to England to work with British songwriters on what turned out to be a very American record. More bluesy and acoustic than her earlier records, the songs are full of melancholy and heartache.

On the song “Sticks and Stones,” she addresses critics with scorching mimicry, singing “She’s ain’t just like her daddy/oh what a shame/She’s got no talent of her own/it’s just her name.”

Baltin said Presley stopped trying to avoid the comparisons at that point in her career.

“That record, in particular, was the first time that she really started to accept who she was and accept all of her roots and how this played into her,” said Baltin. “So I think it was the record that was most completely her because she wasn’t trying to deny her past.”

Songwriter and musician Clif Magness worked with Presley for about two years making the first record, saying she was excellent at writing “dark and quirky” lyrics. He said he rarely pried about who inspired which songs, but he recalled her writing a song about her dad called “Nobody Noticed It.”

“It took about six months to get her to the point where she can be honest with herself and creative with her words and talk about her dad,” he said. “So that was really special.”

Presley’s lyrics to “Lights Out” were written after she had come back from a visit to Graceland, said Magness, where her father and her grandparents are buried in the back lawn, along with extra space for other Presley family members. Years later, in 2020, her 27-year-old son Benjamin Keough was buried there as well.

All roads lead back to Memphis for the Presleys and Lisa Marie will be interred there, too, something she foretold in her music decades ago.

Follow Kristin M. Hall at https://twitter.com/kmhall

Robbie Bachman — the drummer of Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive — has died at age 69, his brother and bandmate Randy Bachman announced via Twitter on Thursday.

“Another sad departure. The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together,” Bachman said alongside a black-and-white photo of the band.

Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Robin “Robbie” Bachman founded the band Brave Belt in 1971, alongside Randy and Chad Allan, both of whom had left the band The Guess Who a year earlier. They were later joined by bassist Fred Turner and recorded two albums.

After Allan left Brave Belt in 1972 and another Bachman brother, Tim, joined, the band renamed itself Bachman-Turner Overdrive and it was in this incarnation that they found widespread success.

The band’s self-titled debut was released in 1973, followed later the same year by “Bachman-Turner Overdrive II,” which contained the hits “Let It Ride” and “Takin’ Care of Business.” Both these songs were later used in movie soundtracks, featuring in “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” and Will Ferrell’s “The Campaign,” respectively.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive released its most popular album, “Not Fragile,” in 1974. The LP topped the US album chart and produced the No. 1 single “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” as well as “Roll on Down the Highway,” co-written by Robbie Bachman and Turner.

One well known fan, Stephen King, adopted the pen name “Richard Bachman” as a partial homage to BTO.

Randy Bachman left the group in the mid-1970s, and gave the remaining members permission to call themselves BTO (But not Bachman-Turner Overdrive so as to distance himself from the band). As BTO, Robbie Bachman and the others continued to tour and record, but their popularity faded and they broke up in 1980.

Over the following decades, the band had sporadic reunions and occasional legal battles, as Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman fought over royalties and rights to the band’s name. The brothers rarely performed together after the early 1990s, with Robbie Bachman once telling The Associated Press that Randy had “belittled” the other band members and likened them to the fictional parody group Spinal Tap.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

People question whether the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley inherited heart troubles from her father, who also died prematurely of cardiac arrest in 1977 at the age of 42. Meanwhile, Presley herself has been open about how much she had been struggling, certainly emotionally, since the 2020 suicide of her son Benjamin Keough.

In May, she wrote on Instagram, “Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed and shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole. Not much else aside from my other three children gets my time and attention anymore.”

Lisa Marie’s words on grief and loss reasonate so powerfully. https://t.co/hBIOVJwtGD

— Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) January 13, 2023

Keough died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 27 on July 12, 2020, at his mother’s former home in Calabasas, outside Los Angeles. Marking National Grief Awareness Day in August, Presley wrote an essay for People magazine about the overwhelming grief she continues to feel over her son’s death. She said that her only motivation “to keep going” was her daughters, actor Riley Keough and 14-year-old twins, Harper and Finley.

Grief is known to exact a heavy toll on a person’s health, Time reported in August, citing studies that show that people are more likely to die when they’re in mourning than otherwise. Scientific literature has even given this phenomenon a name — the “widowhood effect.” Grief can activate the nervous system, including the part that triggers the body’s “flight or fight” response. The overstimulation of this response has been linked to heart failure, Time explained.

As recently as Sunday, four days before her death, Presley looked “incredibly sad” as she stood before fans of her late father at Graceland, his legendary Memphis, Tennessee, estate, the Daily Mail reported. Presley and the fans were there to mark what would have been the icon’s 88th birthday.

Presley told the crowd that they were the “only people” who could get her out of the house. Fans also said she seemed to be “really hurting,” the Daily Mail reported.

Still, Presley managed to leave her home on Tuesday night to attend the Golden Globe Awards. She was there to support “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about her father. While she appeared to be in an upbeat mood during a red carpet interview with Extra TV, she also visibly struggled to stand and needed help walking, Entertainment Tonight reported. She also was seen crying with her mother as actor Austin Butler accepted his Golden Globe award for best actor for his portrayal of her father.

Lisa Marie Presley was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest. Just two days ago, she appeared a bit unsteady on the red carpet at the #GoldenGlobes.

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In the wake of Lisa Marie Presley’s death, people may look for clues in the Presley family history. The Daily Mail noted that Elvis Presley’s mother died of heart failure at 46, and several family members also had heart problems. The Daily Mail also quoted the author of a 2021 biography, “Elvis: Destined to Die Young,” who argued that the early deaths of Elvis Presley, his mother, Gladys, and other family members were likely caused by a genetic defect.

There also will be questions about whether Lisa Marie Presley’s admitted struggles with substance abuse and addiction contributed to any health problems she may have been dealing with at the time of her death. She told People magazine in 2003 that she abused cocaine, sedatives, marijuana and alcohol when she was younger — “I just couldn’t be sober,” Entertainment Tonight reported. She later struggled for years with an addiction to prescription opioids that led to her entering rehab in 2016, as she wrote in the forward the 2019 book, “The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain.”

Page Six reported that there appeared to be no drugs on the scene of Presley’s medical emergency Thursday, which was her Calabasas home. An official cause of death is pending an autopsy and coroner’s report.

TMZ reported that Presley’s housekeeper found her unresponsive. Her ex-husband, Danny Keough, with whom she has remained close, performed CPR on her until paramedics arrived and took over, TMZ also said. Paramedics administered at least one dose of epinephrine during resuscitation efforts and were able to regain a pulse before she was transported to the hospital. But at the hospital, Page Six said, Presley “coded multiple times” before she died.

In her essay on grief for People, Presley wrote that she had dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9, when her father died. But the death of her “beautiful, beautiful son” was beyond what she thought she could bear. She wrote that being in mourning for him was incredibly lonely, particularly because the sudden death of a child seems “unnatural” and can make a parent “a pariah in a sense.”

“You can feel stigmatized and perhaps judged in some way as to why the tragic loss took place,” Presley wrote. “I already battle with and beat myself up tirelessly and chronically, blaming myself every single day and that’s hard enough to live with, but others will judge and blame you too, even secretly or behind your back which is even more cruel and painful on top of everything else.”

Because of the stigma, missing her son and everything else, Presley wrote that she had to make “a real choice to keep going.”

“Grief does not stop or go away in any sense, a year, or years after the loss,” Presley said. “Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not ‘get over it,’ you do not ‘move on,’ period.”