Cornell’s funeral attended by Hollywood fraternity

Chris Cornell was laid to rest in Los Angeles on Friday where his friends and family gathered in order to pay their respects to the rock singer.

His funeral was attended by various famous Hollywood stars including Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Pharrell Williams and Courtney Love.

Hundreds of Cornell’s fans gathered together outside the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to bid their final goodbye to the grunge god. They were later allowed to visit his grave.

Soundgarden’s frontman, Cornell killed himself few weeks ago after fighting against drug and alcohol addiction along with depression, BBC reported.

The ashes of the singer were interred alongside Johnny Ramone in the ‘Garden of Legends’, a place that is called ‘the resting place of Hollywood’s greatest stars’.

Cornell’s former bandmates Kim Thayil, Tom Morello and Matt Cameron presented their eulogies along with Brolin. According to Chicago Tribune, Tom Morello said, “Chris was as melodic as The Beatles, as heavy as Sabbath and as haunting as Edgar Allan Poe. The demons he wrestled with were real, but he harnessed those demons and rode them like a mother-flipping chariot of lightning strapped with Marshall stacks to make some of the greatest rock 'n' roll of all time.”

Chester Bennington, Linkin Park’s singer and guitarist Brad Delson performed a version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah for the mourning crowd.

The funeral gathering also featured a quote from the rock singer: “We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.”

Renowned singer Alice Cooper named him as “the best voice in rock and roll” whereas; Sir Elton John exclaimed that “he was a great singer, songwriter and the loveliest man.”