Passage: Jeff Beck, Lisa Marie Presley and Bernard Kalb

It occurred this previous week: Closing chapters for 3 very totally different individuals who lived VERY totally different lives.

Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and solely youngster of Elvis Presley, died all of the sudden on Thursday after obvious cardiac arrest.

Following in her father’s footsteps, Lisa Marie launched three rock albums.

“Don’t Cry Daddy” by Lisa Marie Presley:

Just a number of days in the past, she was on the Golden Globe Awards celebrating “Elvis,” director Baz Luhrmann’s movie about her father, proclaiming that actor Austin Butler had captured the essence of her dad.

The sole proprietor of Elvis’ Graceland, final weekend Lisa Marie was on the well-known Memphis mansion, welcoming followers on what would have been his 88th birthday.

Married 4 instances, together with marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage, Lisa Marie Presley is survived by her mom, Priscilla, and three youngsters. Her son Benjamin took his personal life in 2020.

Lisa Marie shall be buried subsequent to Benjamin, and close to her father, on the grounds of Graceland. 

She was 54.

Bernard Kalb, a journalist and writer whose profession spanned six many years, died final Sunday after a fall at his Maryland dwelling. He was 100 years outdated.

In his lengthy profession, Kalb labored at The USA Prime Time, CBS News and NBC News. He was additionally the very first host of USA Prime Time’s “Reliable Sources.”

But Kalb’s tenure as press secretary on the State Department through the Reagan Administration might have been his most difficult enterprise. He resigned after 18 months, citing moral qualms with the administration.

At a information convention he mentioned, “You face a selection, as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist, whether or not to permit oneself to be absorbed within the ranks of silence, whether or not to fade into unopposed acquiescence, or to enter a modest dissent.”

Finally, we realized of the dying of rock celebrity Jeff Beck.

Born in London in 1944, Beck was drawn to the electrical guitar after listening to the legendary Les Paul.

Beck constructed his personal instrument at 13, and at 21 he was invited to hitch the Yardbirds by Jimmy Page.

“Heart Full of Soul” by The Yardbirds:

During the 1960’s and ’70s, with the Yardbirds after which the Jeff Beck Group, Beck developed the type that might make him one of the vital expert and influential guitarists in rock historical past.

“Beck’s Bolero” by The Jeff Beck Group:

Winner of eight Grammy Awards and inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Beck died Tuesday from bacterial meningitis. He was 78.

      
Story produced by Lucie Kirk. Editor: Joseph Frandino.