Editing Graceland (section)

== Notable visitors ==

According to Elvis Presley's Enterprises, staff at Graceland informally kept a list of celebrities who had visited in the first years following Elvis's death. This practice was not formalized for a decade. [[Muhammad Ali]], who was a friend of Elvis,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.boxingnews24.com/2023/04/muhammad-ali-talks-about-his-relationship-with-elvis/|title=Muhammad Ali Talks About His Relationship With Elvis!|publisher=Boxing News 24|date=2023-04-21|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/inthemix/The-Greatest-and-King-Ali-and-Elvis.html|title=The Greatest and The King: Ali and Elvis|first=Don|last=DeLuca|publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=June 6, 2016|access-date=April 8, 2024}}</ref> was an early celebrity visitor in 1978, as was singer [[Paul Simon]]. He toured Graceland in the early 80s and afterward wrote [[Graceland (song)|a song of the same name]]; it was the title track of his Grammy-winning album ''[[Graceland (album)|Graceland]]''.

During the Joshua Tree Tour in 1987, [[U2]] toured Graceland. The footage was filmed for the film [[Rattle & Hum]]. During the visit, drummer, Larry Mullen Jr., sat on Elvis Presley's motorcycle -- against the rules for Graceland visitors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tnmuseum.org/Stories/posts/when-love-came-to-town-u2-at-sun-studio |title=When Love Came to Town: U2 at Sun Studio}}</ref>

On June 30, 2006, then US President [[George W. Bush]] hosted Japanese Prime Minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] for a tour of the mansion. It was one of the few private residences on United States soil to have been the site of an official joint-visit by a sitting US president and a serving head of a foreign government. On August 6, 2010, [[Prince Albert II]], Head of State of the Principality of Monaco, and his fiancée (now Princess of Monaco) [[Charlene, Princess of Monaco|Charlene Wittstock]], toured Graceland while vacationing in the US.<ref name="Femfirst">{{cite web |title=Prince Albert's Elvis visit |url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/Prince+Albert-53732.html |publisher=www.femalefirst.co.uk|access-date=August 7, 2010|archive-date=April 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406022008/http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/Prince+Albert-53732.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On May 26, 2013, [[Paul McCartney]] of [[The Beatles]] visited Graceland.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vincent |first=Alice |title=Paul McCartney pays respects to Elvis during Graceland visit |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/10084289/Paul-McCartney-pays-respects-to-Elvis-during-Graceland-visit.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=August 17, 2013 |date=May 28, 2013|archive-date=March 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313100829/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/10084289/Paul-McCartney-pays-respects-to-Elvis-during-Graceland-visit.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[William, Prince of Wales|Prince William]] and [[Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex|Prince Harry]], while in Memphis for a friend's wedding, visited Graceland on May 2, 2014.<ref name=WillsHarry>{{cite web |title=Prince William, Prince Harry Visit Graceland to Pay Tribute to Elvis |url=http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/prince-william-prince-harry-visit-graceland-to-pay-tribute-to-elvis.shtml |website=Elvis Australia|access-date=June 7, 2014|archive-date=June 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620025606/http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/prince-william-prince-harry-visit-graceland-to-pay-tribute-to-elvis.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>

The home has also been visited by former US President [[Jimmy Carter]]; the late Duchess of Devonshire, the sitting ambassadors of India, France, China, Korea and Israel to the United States; as well as several US governors, members of the US Congress, and at least two Nobel Prize winners, namely singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], a Literature Prize laureate, and the former President of Costa Rica, [[Oscar Arias]], a Peace Prize honoree, who visited it on October 10, 2001.

In May 2016, Graceland welcomed a newlywed couple as its 20 millionth visitor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wreg.com/2016/05/03/newlywed-becomes-20-millionth-visitor-to-graceland/ |title=Newlywed becomes 20 millionth visitor to Graceland |date=May 4, 2016 |website=WREG.com|access-date=June 29, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914225451/http://wreg.com/2016/05/03/newlywed-becomes-20-millionth-visitor-to-graceland/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In June 2022, actors [[Austin Butler]] and [[Tom Hanks]] visited the mansion and were interviewed virtually by the ''[[Good Morning America]]'' news program from the Jungle Room to talk about their biographical film ''[[Elvis (2022 film)|Elvis]]''.