COURTNEY LOVE WANTS TO AUCTION OFF KURT COBAIN'S PAJAMAS

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love still sleeps in late husband Kurt Cobain's pajamas.The widow of the Nirvana frontman wears his night clothes to remind her of him, but fears she will never find love unless she moves on. Courtney is now planning to auction a host of Kurt's belongings, including the beloved pyjamas. She revealed to website Spinner.com: "I still wear his pyjamas to bed. How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?"I'm going to have a Christie's auction. My house is like a mausoleum. My daughter Frances doesn't need to inherit a giant bag full of flannel f***ing shirts."A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' - that's what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we'll just f***ing sell."Everyone's been positive and behind me on it. We'll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity."Courtney and Kurt married in 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean, who is now 14. Heroin addict Kurt committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun in 1994.The former Hole singer also revealed she is working on a new solo album,'Nobody's Daughter', on which she will sing about her past relationships with Kurt, actor Edward Norton, and a man she recently dated but won't identify. She said: "There are two songs that are specifically about this guy."The rest of them have bits of Kurt, bits of Edward, bits of lots of people in them."No date has yet been set for the auction.

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AUCTION AT NEW YORKS HARD ROCK CAFE NETS $2.4 MILLION TO HURRICANE VICTIMS

A fundraising auction of music memorabilia from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Edge, Bono and Paul McCartney smashed pre-sale expectations and brought in $2.4 million, a portion of which will go to a charity that replaces musical equipment lost or destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "It was the best sale we've ever done," said Darren Julien, president and CEO of Julien's Auctions, which ran the event benefiting Music Rising. The event on Saturday night at the Hard Rock Cafe was so popular, Julien said, that bidding went on for three hours after it had been supposed to stop. Music Rising was co-founded by The Edge, the U2 guitarist who donated his favorite instrument, a 1975 Gibson Les Paul that he has played on for years. Pre-sale estimates put the guitar at $60,000 to $80,000—it sold for $288,000, including the commission. Other highlights included a guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix that went for $480,000; a pair of sunglasses donated by Bono that went for $24,000; a guitar from Bob Dylan that sold for $192,000 and a guitar from Paul McCartney that brought in $81,600. Julien said the entire auction slate, 204 items, was sold. For some items, the total selling price was going to Music Rising, while other items were giving a portion of the proceeds. The final amount going to the charity had not been tallied yet, he said.

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