Brown M&M's And Smoke Detectors

David Lee Roth, the legendary lead singer for the band Van Halen, was the poster child for 1980s excess. He was chastised in the news media for demanding only non-brown M&M's in his dressing room, the presumably obvious sign of a narcissistic diva. While his ego may have been the size of the stadiums he rocked, the M&M's rule actually had nothing do to with self-aggrandizement. It was a business smoke detector.