For years a story has circulated that the rock and roll group Van Halen had a contract

that required that a bowl of M&M's be left backstage whenever they performed with

all the brown M&M's removed. If there were any brown M&M's in the bowl they would use it as an

excuse to trash the room and potentially cancel the concert. Is this just an urban

legend or was there something behind the story?

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link in the show notes. There are all sorts of urban legends that are passed around and the majority of them

have no basis in reality. For example, Paul McCartney died and was replaced by a double

and that they hinted at this fact on the cover of the Abbey Road album. Or that Phil Collins wrote

the song In The Air Tonight about watching a man drown to death, or that

Tupac Shakur faked his own death, or that Richard Gere, well never mind that one.

The point is that stories often float around which usually have no basis in reality.

The story about Van Halen was that the band had a rider in all of their contracts

that required a bowl of M&Ms was to be left backstage and that all

the brown ones be removed.

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