Elton John reportedly took a wrong turn in a helicopter. He is said to have chartered one last month to attend a wedding in Gloucestershire, England. The New York Post reports that the chopper dropped him off at the wrong wedding, before flying him to the right one. Elton's spokesperson denies the story.  

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Paul McCartney has a sense of humor, but not when it comes at the expense of animals. Weird Al Yankovic, who, like McCartney is a vegetarian, recently revealed that a while back he wanted to parody McCartney's "Live and Let Die" as "Chicken Pot Pie." Al says, "He didn't want a song used in any context that would be supposedly promoting the consumption of animal flesh... It's a valid reason and I get it. And I hate it when people put him on the list of humorless guys, because that wasn't the case at all. In fact, he said, 'Think of any other subject and I'm happy to OK it.'" Weird Al's tour continues Saturday in Costa Mesa, California, and McCartney starts his On the Run tour on July 15th in New York City and will be at Great American Ball Park August 4th.

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Sly Stone's new album, due next month, was apparently recorded on the cheap. His original Family Stone sax player Jerry Martini tells us that funk-fusion icon "did this basically from his home, the other celebrities added their tracks." Martini says neither he nor any of the band's classic line-up from the late-'60s or early '70s will be on the album. The issue was money. The label made him an offer he considered "a joke... so, along with the other members, [I] respectfully declined to participate. Maybe if Sly would have called me personally I would have done it."