• Elton John is to marry his partner David Furnish on December 21, the first day same-sex unions become legal in England. Though he would like to keep the ceremony small, he wants everyone to know that he has spent the past nine months choosing the perfect glasses. He also turned down $11 million to broadcast the wedding because, you know, he's not a sell out. [Billboard & Pink News]

• Sure, Madonna is annoyingly everywhere you look in the magazines, on the radio and on television, not to mention providing a constant reminder of some way you are living your life wrong, but what she would really like to do is direct. [Newsday]

• Black Sabbath is finally being inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Here's to hoping that Ozzy is able to mumble his way though the acceptance speech with any sort of coherence. [MTV]

• Though we continue to be confused about the importance of having the number one Christmas single in the UK, NME has released its odds on who is going to take the prize. Never mind, Love Actually was amazing, we actually care, and are gunning for the winner of Simon Cowell's fake American Idol. [NME]

• Christmas shopping season is officially in session, and nothing would make a better stocking stuffer for either your dad or your tween cousin than Sandy Cohen's first album. [CNN]