Andrew Slater remembers explaining to Lisa Marie Presley how this whole thing was going to work.
Twenty years ago, the veteran manager and record producer — then also the president of Presley's storied label, Capitol Records — had cut the singer's debut single with her in the studio, and now he was prepping her for what was to come.
"I said, 'This song is a good entry point for what you're doing on your album, so what we'll do is we'll put a promotional tour together because people will want to talk to you about the song,'" Slater recalled of "Lights Out," a glossy but muscular pop-rock tune in which the singer addresses her background as the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. "'We'll go to radio stations in a couple cities and get up early and do morning shows.' And she goes, 'I just have one question: Can I bring my plane?'" Slater laughed. "I said, 'As long as we don't park it at the radio station, I think we're good.'"
