Why Van Halen refused brown M&Ms and you should too
As the music world mourns the death of rock god Eddie Van Halen this week, stories of his eponymous band’s famous ‘no brown M&Ms’ standard contractual clause have resurfaced. That’s right, you read correctly. Brown ones were strictly verboten. But was this stipulation simply a furphy? And what on earth has it got to do with proofreading? The clause was real enough. But it wasn’t just one of those typically outrageous demands so often associated with headline acts. (Iggy Pop…