The first standing ovation during Elton John’s sold-out benefit performance at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday night wasn’t for Sir Elton, but for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Bob Dylan, the 66 year-old folk singer who was booed offstage for playing his electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, has won a special citation from the Pulitzer Board citing “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group have teamed up with the online social networking site MySpace to launch a new web site focusing on musicians and music. Millions of musicians already have MySpace pages and the companies are promising that the new site will provide “a host of new music services and monetization models,” according to a press release issued by the companies.

At first it looked like the rumors of an impending Jay-Z/Beyonce wedding might have been an April Fool’s joke, since the couple reportedly got their marriage license on April 1. But now additional sources are surfacing that say the wedding is set to go off tomorrow.

In his upcoming autobiography Bobby Brown writes that “I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney (Houston). Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice,” according to a report in the New York Post.

The book is titled Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But and is due out in May.

Stand-up comedian and television star Jerry Seinfeld avoided serious injury in a crash of a 1967 Fiat sports car after the both the regular brakes and emergency brake failed in East Hampton, according to a report by the Associated Press.

That’s right, Madonna (more top 10 hits) and Mariah Carey (more #1 hits) now have more hits on the Billboard charts than The King himself - Elvis Presley.

Actor, director and clarinetist Woody Allen is suing American Apparel, Inc., a clothing manufacturer, for using his image in advertising on billboards and the internet without his permission.