Household star rider. Touring whims of stars
A rider is a list of requirements that celebrity agents send to the organizers of the performance in advance. Sometimes these lists make the receiving party grab their head: “Why would they need THIS?”
The editors of the site found out what things are required by Russian and foreign stars for a comfortable existence. Here is a selection of oddities and quirks from star riders.
This information was collected from celebrity riders different years, so the information may be out of date due to changes in their show programs, tastes, or other reasons.
Ridiculous riders of foreign stars
Celine Dion
Celine Dion demands that the air temperature in her dressing room be no more or less than 23 degrees Celsius. Otherwise there will be no concert! 
Britney Spears
Britney Spears demanded a dedicated telephone line in the dressing room, otherwise the organizers would pay a $3,000 fine for each incoming call. There was a time before a concert when she and her team needed 100 McDonald's cheeseburgers... minus the buns. And for a concert in London in 2011, she needed a framed photo of Princess Diana. 
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez wants to be surrounded everywhere White color, and could leave the organizers with nothing if her sheets are not made of pure cotton. And during a performance in Moscow, she needed a motorcade of 19 S-class cars, and hippos and crocodiles were to be embroidered on towels for her children.Rider Jennifer Lopez for a concert in Moscow
Madonna
Madonna requires a staff of two hundred people, including a personal chef, a yoga instructor, 30 bodyguards and a special person to vacuum the stage costumes. The room should contain soft pink lilies or white roses with a 15-centimeter stem. 
Iggy Pop
The demands of Iggy Pop and his The group The Stooges took up 28 A4 pages. One of the demands was as follows: “We need 7 dwarfs dressed exactly like those gnomes from the Walt Disney cartoon about a woman who goes into a hundred-year hibernation after being bitten by a poisonous gnome, or after she pricks her finger with a sharp an apple... or something like that. Well, taller people will do too. The main thing is attitude. And don’t forget the pointy hats.” 
Paul McCartney
A vegetarian for many years, Paul McCartney will not tolerate anything in his room that leads to the death of a living creature: no skins, fur or skin, not to mention meat for dinner. 
Marilyn Manson
The brutal Marilyn Manson will cancel a concert if there are no his favorite Haribo bears, popcorn and chips in the dressing room. 
David Hesselhoff
Actor and singer David Hesselhoff wants to see his cardboard figure in the room full height. 
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand wants her bathroom floor and toilet to be covered in rose petals. 
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj's requests are quite modest: a bucket of spicy chicken wings, two space heaters, bakery-scented candles, three different flavors of gum and a plate of cheese. 
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey asks for a bottle of Crystal champagne and a straw to sip slowly in her room. She needs a helper to throw away her chewing gum and help her up the stairs. The room should have a sofa in dark colors “without those annoying patterns.” The temperature in the room is exactly 24 degrees Celsius, and there are many white roses and vanilla-scented candles in the room. 
Cher
Singer Cher needs a separate room for her wigs. It sounds strange, but she really has a lot of them. 
Coldplay
The members of the Coldplay group have no special requirements, except that every hotel room should have postcards of local landmarks - they send them to family, this is a tradition. 
Beyoncé
Beyonce has two conditions that are not discussed under any circumstances: a huge dressing room the size of a school gym and baked chicken for dinner. 
Rihanna
Rihanna's room should have a plush sofa and pillows with an animal print, preferably zebra or tiger stripes, definitely without glitter, as well as a brand new carpet for walking on barefoot. 
Katy Perry
Katy Perry's 45-page rider includes the following: two cream-colored egg chairs, a glass-door refrigerator, a vintage French lamp with an ornament, special person for washing fruits and vegetables. And none of the staff should talk to her. 
Eminem
Eminem is no longer the brash bully he was at the beginning of his career. Now he adheres to the philosophy of contemplation, which is perhaps why he once demanded that the organizers of a performance in Ireland have a hotel with a pond full of Japanese koi carp. 
Robbie Williams
Another fan of Zen Buddhism is Robbie Williams. In his dressing room there must certainly be a bonsai tree, a photograph of the Dalai Lama and four ashtrays, and sometimes also a live monkey. 
M.I.A.
Singer M.I.A. wants to see a couple of 20-25-year-old dancers dressed in burqas as backup dancers, and “gruyère cheese as old as dinosaurs” in the act. 
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga's rider is weird simply because it's Lady Gaga. The dressing room should be decorated in a glam rock style (whatever that means), all bath accessories should be lavender in color and scent, there should be a mannequin with pink hair on the pubic area. 
Moby
Moby requires 10 pairs of white cotton socks and the same number of crisp white boxers. He takes the remaining laundry with him after the performance. 
The secret becomes clear
In the rockers rider Van Halen the following was stated: “The room must have a bowl of M&M’s, from which all candies have been removed Brown" But this strange, at first glance, requirement is more than a whim of the stars. 
The fact is that each performance of the group required serious efforts from the receiving party. During the show, Van Halen rode on stage in huge trucks and did many other stunts that turned the performance into a colorful show, and any mistake in the stage design could result in disaster.
To ensure that the organizers have carefully read the technical requirements for the stage, among detailed description Every little detail like sockets and the width of doorways was hidden in a “Sweets” section with a line about M&M’s. If, upon checking into their room, the artists saw brown M&M’s in the bowl, the concert was immediately canceled and the money was not returned to the organizer.
Riders of Russian stars
Singer Nikita
Singer Nikita, author once popular song“Flew Away Forever” loves his chow-chow Seva very much. In 2005, the media reported that required condition his rider is a separate room, a car and a hairdresser for the pet. Seva should be fed young meat with vegetables and nothing else. Nikita was not so scrupulous about his beloved: he only asked to be accommodated in a room in pastel colors. 
Lolita
Lolita Milyavskaya's rider seems quite adequate: a suite in a five-star hotel, bodyguards and a limousine at the ramp. But these simple requirements were not always met. Tired of the irresponsibility of the organizers, Lolita added “Oka” to the list with a flashing light, which should meet her at the airport. This is how she determines who has read her rider and who has not. Those who read it will certainly call and clarify, to which the singer replies: “Just kidding, relax!” 
As for the performance itself, on stage Lolita needs two Viennese chairs and three water cannons. After the last point I even wanted to go to the singer’s concert.
Taisiya Povaliy
In the rider 
Zemfira
In 2013, Zemfira came to Ukraine with a concert. The organizers of the event posted the singer’s rider online with a demand to provide her with a suite in a 5-star hotel, a BMW or Mercedes executive class with the ability to smoke in the cabin, 5 security guards, and a dressing room, which must have 10 terry towels and soap (including a shower). there was not a word). The menu included 10 raw eggs, apparently to maintain his voice. But there was no alcohol on the list at all, contrary to widespread rumors that Zemfira likes to drink a glass of Veuve Clicquot or a glass of Hennessy before a concert. 
Alexander Rybak
In 2009, a pop star with Norwegian roots amazed the organizers of the Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk with her demands. The producers of Alexander Rybak requested an executive Mercedes S220, and for its accompanying Mercedes Sprinter. The rider, it was said, must be assigned at least two security guards to the singer, and during concerts the backup dancers and musicians had to have their own security. The minibar in the room should have been stocked with the following drinks: 10 bottles of beer, 1 bottle of dry white wine, 20 bottles of still water, 20 bottles of lemonade and 5 bottles of Coca-Cola light. At the same time, it was strictly forbidden to feed Rybak’s troupe pizza and fast food. It is not clear why the festival’s management was so taken aback by the “excessive and irritating” conditions that were rather modest for the Eurovision winner, which took up only 2 pages.A limousine, 2 escort cars and a Mercedes bus for backup dancers are required to meet the singer at the ramp. In Russia and the CIS countries, Kirkorov’s safety on the road must be ensured by traffic police vehicles.
The artist must be provided with at least a two-room presidential suite. The first room is large and bright, with a full-length mirror, upholstered furniture, a dressing table, a wardrobe for at least 20 suits, a table with a snow-white tablecloth, a separate bathroom, fresh flowers and a decanter of orange juice. The second room is completely dedicated to a wardrobe.
One of the strangest conditions of Kirkorov’s rider is “a preliminary screening on local TV of Kirkorov’s video clips, the film “Philip Kirkorov. One Year in the Life: Love and Stage” and promotional videos for his performance.
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Paul McCartney Rider
1. Iggy Pop
The grandfather of punk rock, a regular at mental hospitals, Iggy Pop made concert organizers tremble long before he appeared on the site. Rider it ensemble The The Stooges included the item "7 dwarfs dressed like the dwarfs from that wonderful Disney movie." The promoters did not immediately realize that this was a humorous wish.
2. Slayer
When the dark overlords of thrash metal demanded that they prepare “100 snow-white goats,” “a halal butcher for slaughtering goats,” and “bags of ice and cold storage for storing goat meat” for their performance at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2011, the person on the other end of the line was already no one laughed. The rider also included 50 thousand live bees, bulletproof umbrellas, a pentagram-shaped sandwich tray and a ping-pong table. Of all the above, we managed to get only a table on time.
3. Mötley Crüe
In the 80s, Los Angeles glam decadents Mötley Crüe could indulge in whims on a cosmic scale. In the dressing room, the musicians expected to see a semi-automatic pistol, a five-foot boa constrictor, a schedule for the local Alcoholics Anonymous club and a bottle of Gray Poupon mustard. Moreover, having taken out the boa constrictor and the barrel, the organizers could not relax: in 1988, vocalist Vince Neil discovered mustard of a different brand, became furious and threw the bottle at the wall with all his might, and a fragment that bounced off it damaged his radial artery (this is in the area thumb hands, but not very pleasant).
4.DMX
Trushny American rapper always famous for his laconic but brutal rider and was content with two boxes of condoms and a gallon (almost four liters) of Hennessy. In November 2010, this sweet tradition cost him his freedom: after the concert, the rapper ended up in an Arizona prison. Under the terms of his parole, DMX had no right to touch alcohol, but he broke three weeks before the end of his probation.
5. Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters household rider smacks of pretentiousness. The musicians demand that backstage there be DVDs of films that someone has already watched - but without sports terms in the titles (and God forbid that Martin Lawrence played in at least one of them). Magazines "that show us that you have a brain and interesting hobbies"(prohibited Spin, Rolling Stone and People). And the food remaining after the concert must be donated to a shelter, soup kitchen or “our roadie (road manager - approx..
6.Van Halen
And finally, the original source of all the star riders belongs to the pen of hard rockers Van Halen. He looked like a big notebook and contained written small print text. Among other things, it talked about M&M's, and all brown candies had to be removed. It turned out that this requirement was not a sign of the moral degradation of the musicians, but of their high professionalism. If the performers saw that there were brown jelly beans in the bowl, they knew that technical rider, most likely, has not been fulfilled - and now there is every reason to start a scandal.
Very famous and eminent stars always have their own rider, i.e. this is a list of conditions and requirements for those items and food that must be on stage and in the star’s dressing room. If something from the stipulated list is not available, then the star has the right to cancel the performance without refund. Photographer Henry Hargreaves became interested in this issue, who brought together and photographed the most demanding riders, very famous bands and singers.
Frank Sinatra: one bottle of each: Absolut Vodka, Jack Daniel's, Chivas Regal, Courvoisier, Beefeater Gin, white wine, red wine. Twenty-four chilled jumbo shrimp, cough drops.
Axl Rose (Guns N Roses): fresh Wonder bread (white), Dom Perignon.
Beyoncé Knowse: Juicy baked chicken, seasoned with garlic, sea salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper. Beyoncé, after signing a contract with Pepsi, can only drink Pepsi drinks.
Rap artist Busta Rhymes: twenty-four pieces of fried chicken, Rough Rider condoms, Guinness beer.
Billy Idol: One bowl of what looks like butter, Pepperidge Farms Homemade Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Lady Gaga: small plate cheese (not stinky), on ice.
Nine Inch Nails: Two packages of cornstarch.
Britney Spears: fish and chips, McDonald's cheeseburgers without buns, 100 prunes and figs, framed photo of Princess Diana.
Rock band Foo Fighters: big sausages that make men feel uncomfortable.
Mariah Carey: Crystal champagne, bendable straw.
Marilyn Manson: gummy bears.
New Kids On The Block: Häagen-Dazs ice cream, Oreo cookies.
Prince: everything for making tea and coffee, including honey, lemon, sugar, cream, fresh ginger root. A syringe is needed to give vitamin B-12 injections.
Van Halen: herring in sour cream, large package of KY gel, M&M's (warning: no brown ones required).
Rihanna: Hard-boiled eggs, turkey bacon, turkey sausage, any time during the day.
Chupa Chups, fresh chicken and two mulatto virgins: we found out what unusual requirements household riders contain Russian stars.
Svetlana Loboda
SVETLANA LOBODA: ONLY NEW TEAPOTS!
Svetlana Loboda, who became a mother for the second time less than a month ago, has already committed triumphant return from short maternity leave, appearing on stage on June 8 at the MUZ TV Awards at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex. In such great hall It is difficult to comply with all the living conditions necessary for the artist; the star has repeatedly complained about the stuffiness. But at other venues, the temperature both in the dressing rooms and on stage should be strictly 18 degrees - that’s how comfortable she is. Plus, she intends to boil water only in a new kettle.
Svetlana Loboda uses exclusively new kettles
“Once I was in Novokuznetsk funny story, when Loboda accused the organizers of not complying with this point, one of the organizers of the singer’s concert tells StarHit. - Like, the kettle was stale. I had to show the director a receipt that the equipment was purchased yesterday.”
RAPPER PHARAOH: THERE WILL BE NO CONCERT WITHOUT Chupa Chupsa
The reason for hundreds of sleepless nights for Alesya Kafelnikova is a guy with difficult needs. The 22-year-old rap artist, who is rapidly gaining popularity, often performs at various national concerts and gives solo performances. One detail of his everyday rider literally discourages the meeting party.
Rapper Pharaoh and Alesya Kafelnikova
“Gleb asks that a lollipop be put in his hotel room, otherwise he might turn around and leave,” the organizers of one of the events told StarHit. music festivals. “We have a lot of stars who need to be provided with really necessary things, and here a person shouldn’t forget to buy candy.” An unusual request, without which the performance would be in jeopardy, is also made by the Butyrka group, which performs songs in the chanson genre.
“Imagine the face of the organizers when they find out that the stern soloist, performing in a leather shirt, needs ... a cake before the concert,” Vlad, the tour organizer, tells StarHit. “If it was alcohol, no one would probably be surprised.” But people love sweets!” 
Sofia Rotaru cannot go on tour without chicken
SOFIA ROTARU: FRESHLY BAKED CHICKEN IS ALWAYS ON THE TABLE
Despite her status, the artist has a fairly simple rider, which includes the usual items for top stars: a business flight or travel in a separate railway carriage, a luxury car. However, Sofia Mikhailovna also has a slight weakness - she asks the concert organizers for freshly baked chicken bought at the local market and a dozen eggs for her hotel room."We had a lot funny stories related to this point of the rider,” Rotaru director Sergei Lavrov tells StarHit. – The receiving party diligently complies with our requirements; a ready-made bird is waiting for the artist at the hotel. But Sofia Mikhailovna does not always have time to eat it, so she takes the leftovers with her. And in the next city of the tour she is “met”... by another whole chicken! By the third day, half of the team begins to eat chicken, because as a person of Soviet training, Rotaru does not throw anything away. But it’s nourishing and dietary – everyone is happy!”
Freshly baked chicken - especially for Sofia Rotaru
NARGIZ: TOWEL FETISHISM
The finalist of “The Voice” and ward of Maxim Fadeev Nargiz Zakirova has one of the densest tour schedules. Before going on stage, the star has a special ritual, which concert organizers did not immediately get used to.“Nargiz asks that six white towels measuring exactly one meter by one and a half be brought to her dressing room,” the singer’s promoter Sergei Lavrov tells StarHit. – More than once I heard questions from the receiving party about why she needed so much. Let me explain: an hour before the performance, the artist likes to undress, wrap herself in these towels, make something like a toga, and walk around the room like that. This ritual probably inspires her.”
Nargiz Zakirova likes to walk around in a towel before a performance
LOLITA, GROUP 25/17, RAPPER ST: ATTENTION TEST
Sometimes stars add some points to the rider in order to test the vigilance of the receiving party.
Rapper ST blows yellow M&M's
“When we received the list of demands of the 25/17 team, we fell out of our chairs laughing,” the organizer of the festival at Rosa Khutor LiveFest tells StarHit. – Among the standard coffee, tea and fruit plates, we saw an item - “two mulatto virgins.” We found the Metis with one call. We decided to find out whether guys who already had sexual experience would be suitable. I call their director, he laughs: they say, they passed the test, well done - you read the rider carefully.” Lolita also gave a similar “exam” to the concertgoers, who asked to be met at the airport in an Oka car. Or Olga Buzova’s lyricist, rapper ST, who asks for exclusively yellow M&M’s in his dressing room. 
Lolita is not averse to giving concert organizers an exam
It is not only Western artists who put forward high demands from riders. Russian show business stars do not lag behind their foreign colleagues in this matter.
Philip Kirkorov is considered one of the most demanding artists. His rider states that his car must be accompanied by traffic inspectors. In addition, a limousine should meet him at the plane's ramp. Kirkorov always orders a Mercedes bus for his staff. Philip Bedrosovich agrees to stay only in the most prestigious hotels. The presidential suite must be ready for his arrival. Special attention When traveling, Kirkorov pays attention to his nutrition. His personal chef tours with him.
Singer Lolita Milyavskaya has less demanding rider points. A suite, security, and a limousine must be ready for her arrival. However, the singer came across the irresponsibility of the organizers so many times that she decided to check them every time to ensure they were familiar with her rider. To do this, she included in her list of requirements that she must be accompanied from the plane by an Oka car with a flashing light. Thus, Lolita can already understand from the plane’s steps whether the concert organizers read her rider or not.
Alla Pugacheva tries not to disclose her rider. But the journalists still managed to find out what the prima donna’s preferences were during the tour. In addition to the usual rider points regarding accommodation, escort and security, the singer asks the organizers to protect themselves from the influence of negative energy.
Pugacheva is concerned about her energy security. Upon arrival at the hotel, she may be dissatisfied with the suite prepared for her if she feels in it. As the diva previously stated, she has psychic abilities. She tries to manifest this gift for her own good. Before a performance, the singer always puts on the talisman of her zodiac sign. In addition, Pugacheva is used to eating according to recommendations when traveling lunar calendar. The organizers have to find out what lunar day it will be when Alla Borisovna arrives in order to prepare a menu that matches her lunar diet. Long before the concert, Pugacheva is always interested in astrological forecast for a month to be prepared for unforeseen situations and protect yourself from danger. There are rumors that despite the fact that Pugacheva calls herself a clairvoyant, she still uses the services of psychics and astrologers. As it turned out, twice a year the diva attends a session with an astrologer, who draws up a family horoscope and a career horoscope for her.
The guys from the group “Disco Accident” have an unusual rider. Among the most common demands, singers ask organizers to provide them with live chicken. Under this point, the “Avarians” sign reassuringly that the bird will remain safe and sound. If you count how many cities the band has visited throughout their career, you can easily guess what a large number of hens of Russia became famous thanks to “Disco Crash”.
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