NO BROWN M&M'S!

You guys have all heard different stories about rock stars and their outlandish requests on their tour riders... The story that is is the most ridiculed is one band's request that stipulated that brown M&M's should be banned from their backstage dressing room!
The band was Van Halen, performers of such classics as "Panama", "Jump", and "Runnin' With The Devil." Check out the highlighted paragraph from their infamous rider below...

Van Halen has since claimed that the M&M provision was included to make sure that promoters had actually read their lengthy rider. If brown M&M's were in the backstage candy bowl, Van Halen assumed that more important aspects of a performance including lighting, staging, security, or ticketing may have been botched by an inattentive promoter.