From Live Bats On Set To Golfing Breaks — Here Are 12 Times Celebrities Made Odd Contract Demands

However, former frontman David Lee Roth set the record straight in his 1997 autobiography, Crazy From the Heat, writing,

“So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say, ‘Article 148: There will be 15 amperage voltage sockets at 20-foot spaces, evenly, providing 19 amperes … ‘ This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was, ‘There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.’

So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.”