AP - Usher, "Here I Stand" (LaFace/Zomba)

AP - Paul McCartney can now add one more honor to the numerous awards, accolades and the knighthood he has already received.

Reuters - Glen Hansard, armed with a weathered acoustic guitar and an ear-to-ear grin, walked onto the fully lit stage of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall and addressed the 6,000 faces assembled in the cavernous space.

AP - Paul McCartney can now add one more honor to the numerous awards, accolades and the knighthood he has already received.

AP - Paul McCartney can now add one more honor to the numerous awards, accolades and the knighthood he has already received. The ex-Beatle on Monday was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University.

E! Online - At first it seemed like overkill, being able to download American Idol performances from iTunes the day after they aired.

E! Online - What David Archuleta wants to know is, why in the world wouldn't he be able to fetch a glass of water for himself?

E! Online - Like any good confection, Madonna wants you to know she may have a Hard Candy exterior, but she's all soft in the center.

AP - CANNES, France (AP) — Most documentaries stick with interviews of living people. But since this one's about New York's Chelsea Hotel and its rock 'n' roll aura, it seems natural that the ghosts of Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious turn up.

AP - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Pioneering rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters, who spent more than five years in prison on a 1991 attempted murder conviction and faced threats of deportation years after rehabilitating his life, was granted a full and unconditional pardon Friday by New York Gov. David Paterson.

Reuters - Russia reveled in the feel-good factor on Sunday after winning the Eurovision song contest, and Germans and Britons wondered why their singers were so unloved.

AP - A judge says Chicago Sun-Times lawyers have a week to respond to a motion asking for a reporter to testify at rapper R. Kelly's child pornography trial.

E! Online - Jessica Simpson hopped off her flight from Mexico and jumped right back to work.