Here is something which may amuse and interest you.
When I first came across this neat little book, I had no idea what a 'rider' was - apart from a person on a horse or a bike, of course, and an addition to a legal document.
When I looked it up in my faithful Chambers Dictionary, I found that it also means, or has meant:
A commercial traveller
A mosstrooper(?)
A gold coin bearing an image of a man on horseback.
AND, as in this case, it means: A list of requirements(i.e. food and drink) written into the contract of a performing artist.

Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad!
From some of these riders, it is obvious that the adulation of audiences, night after night, and the attention of the press and other media, gives performers the mistaken impression that they are far more important in the scheme of things than is in fact the case.

There!
Thats my Victor Meldrew "I cant believe it!" side showing itself.
But I still get a laugh out of this little book!

VAN HALEN
A bowl of M&Ms with the brown ones taken out


MOTLEY CRUE
Kraft mayonnaise
Grey Poupon
Dijon mustard
Skippy creamy peanut butter
12-foot long boa constrictor


A submachine gun
Local AA meeting schedules

FOO FIGHTERS
Stinky cheese


MARILYN MANSON
Air-conditioning always on full
Haribo gummy bears


Doritos
Hansons cherry vanilla
Microwave popcorn
Bottle of Absinthe
A bald hooker with no teeth

KORN
Lawyer
Doctor
Dentist


SAMMY DAVIS JNR
Assortment of groovy chicks

DAVID HASSELHOFF
Life-size cutout of David Hasselhoff

           
                            
GORGOROTH
50 sheep heads
200 metres barbed wire

                   
1 carpenter
Extra-soft pink toilet paper

                      
NERINA PALLOT
Scrabble


A pair of knitting needles
Assorted wool


RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS
All triangular objects removed from dressing room

GNARLS BARKLEY
A pack of white sweat socks


A bucket of fried chicken
A pack of Magnum condoms
A bag of Snickers mints
A large cheese pizza
A dozen Krispy Kreme donuts


1 pack of Swisher Sweets cigars

BRITNEY SPEARS
2 boxes of Pop Tarts
Captain Crunch Fruit Loops


Cable television
2 six-foot couches
Odour-free carpet
A phone-line

CHAKA KHAN
Wild flowers
Six cans of sardines with skin and bones

No stairs

BARBARA STREISAND
Rose petals in toilet

ELVIS PRESLEY
Pot roast with gravy
Mashed potatoes with gravy
Corn bread with gravy


36 chocolate donuts

DIXIE CHICKS
24 fresh-cut flowers
Membership passes for a local golf-club

JOHN ENTWISTLE


A red Mercedez Benz
A Rolex

JENNIFER LOPEZ
White flowers
White tablecloths
White drapes
White candles


White couches
Lo-watt lightbulbs
Coffee to be stirred anti-clockwise
Skittles

LIL' KIM
Dressing-room arranged for optimum feng shui
Three walls covered in pink fluff

WILL YOUNG
Pink champagne
Pink towels


PUFF DADDY
204 towels
20 bars of soap


2 bottles of Hennessy cognac
2 bottles of Santa Margherita
Pinot Grigio
2 bottles of Veuve Clicquot
1 bottle of Dom Perignon
Grey Goose vodka
Boom box
Bouquet of white flowers


Ruffles cheddar cheese and sour-cream chips
Jolly Ranchers, Sweet Tarts and Spree candles
A £300,000 bullet-proof Maybach

TONY BENN
Armchair
Rug
Vegetarian sandwich
Bananas
Tea


U2
Guinness
Champagne
Sherry
Chardonnay and Bordeaux
Physiotherapy room (for massage)
2 portable oxygen tanks


1 doctor
Washers and dryers
A piano tuner

THE POLICE
Organic food Cough mixture


ROLLING STONES
HP sauce
Shepherds' pie
Paintbrushes


Snooker table
TV ( capable of broadcasting cricket matches )
Toilet ( on wheels )

IGGY POP
A sharp knife
Chinese gunpowder tea
An English language newspaper
Seven dwarfs

                 
A monitor man who speaks good English and is not afraid of death
Bob Hope impersonator
6 bottles of decent local beer
2 bottles of Bordeaux-type red wine,
1st choice-a Medoc, St. Emilion, Pamerol, or Pauillac, years '86,'89,'90
2nd choice- Barolo or Barbaresco '89 or '90

What would your rider be?