Inside or outside the hotel where he died in Houston, the famous and the fans mourn

Inside or outside the hotel where he died in Houston, the famous and the fans mourn:  Whether central or alfresco the Beverly Hilton auberge area accompanist Whitney Houston died Saturday afternoon, the affliction and shock were the same.

They were just bidding abnormally -- by the acclaimed central and by the accustomed fan outdoors.

Inside the auberge that occupies a abounding block, the music industry's better names aggregate in affected accoutrements for an anniversary pre-Grammy affair that had been continued planned by Houston's mentor, Clive Davis.

But a affair just didn't assume right, participants said as they absolved down the red carpet.

Some, like songwriter David Foster, anticipation alert about accessory a bright at the aforementioned auberge area 48-year-old Houston died in her allowance just hours earlier.

"We debated whether to appear tonight and we accomplished it was traveling to abide and it was traveling to be a memorial," Foster said.

"It's just shocking," he said of the death.

When the affair started, fable Tony Bennett listed the names of abundant entertainments who afresh died: Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, and now "the arresting Whitney Houston," he said.

Bennett again fabricated a well-understood advertence to Houston's accomplished problems with drugs, and he alleged on "everyone to get our government to approve drugs" so bodies don't accept to get it from "gangs" beneath the table, he said.

The country needs to "legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam," Bennett added.

He again sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" and accustomed a continuing acclaim with the endure line: "Hope the music never ends."

Davis opened his animadversion about the "unspeakably adverse account of our admired Whitney's passing." Davis has continued hosted a affair the day afore the Grammy Awards, the music industry's a lot of acclaimed event.

"I do accept a abundant heart, and I am alone devastated by anyone so abutting to me for so abounding years," Davis told the acquisition of artists and entertainers.

"My affection goes out to her babe Bobbi Kristina and her mother, Cissy," Davis said.

Houston's coach again asked for a moment of silence, saying, "We address this black to her."

Outside, as a littoral arctic acclimatized over humans who aggregate until the baby hours of Sunday morning, admirers and media flocked to two places: the foreground and aback entrances of the sprawling auberge complex. In between, they laid roses and ablaze candles.