While thousands of fans mourned Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's death at a vigil Sunday in Seattle, about 300 friends and family members gathered for a private memorial a few blocks away at the Seattle Unity Church.
"It was lovely, moving and very cathartic," Nirvana manager Janet Billig said.
Widow Courtney Love read from the Bible and Cobain's favorite poems. Cobain pal Dylan Carlson and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic spoke. Songs included Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam and the Beatles' In My Life. Cobain will be cremated; no funeral is planned.
"I'm tough and I can take anything. But I can't take this," Love told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a copyrighted story.
Cobain, found dead Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, disappeared a week ago. He left a drug treatment center he had entered after Love authorized an intervention. "I listened to too many people," she told the paper. "I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life. It's all my fault."
In an apparent copycat suicide, a man despondent over Cobain's death fatally shot himself Monday near Seattle.
