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Elton John's Glasses Room: Tour Rider Demands Hotel Spot for Rocket Man's Specs
- Posted on Mar 6th 2013 5:50PM by Cameron Matthews
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The flamboyant performer's current tour rider was published by the Brazilian paper Pampulha, and translated by Huffpost Entertainment. The document asks that chrysanthemums be placed in the artist's dressing and hotel rooms, which are to be maintained at an even 60 degrees Fahrenheit (66 degrees Fahrenheit in summer months).
Besides asking for the popular Brazilian snack pão de queijo, John requests a totally separate room simply to store his collection of spectacles.
"In general, he is not so eccentric," concert promoter Aluízer Malab tells the Portugese-speaking paper. "These are reasonable requests. He's an artist who is very disciplined in relation to his voice and preparation for the show and he asks for some things related to the temperature of his room. These are preoccupations that he has."
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UPDATE: John's publicist tells us that the report is false but declined to elaborate.
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I get so sick of people slamming Adele for her weight. The woman is an AMAZING talent. These stupid kids are all drooling over the likes of skin and bones mediocre talents like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez when they should be looking up to a woman who has genuine talent and a straight up in your face comfort in her own skin like Adele. She is gorgeous, sexy, and talented! This is why we are seeing a generation of weight obsessed little girls who pick apart their bodies and features in the mirror everyday. It's disgusting!
On a different note. I think I just fell a little more in love with Iggy Pop!
A crack oil machine (really cracked oil) is an alternative to a standard smoke machine. Some people believe smoke from smoke machines is bad for your vocal chords.
May 02 2013 at 8:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAdele's request is perfectly legit. North American beer is piss water
April 22 2013 at 5:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAt lest she has good taste in beer. Nothing that is mass produced in the North America is any good.
April 21 2013 at 1:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo she wants very easy beers to buy. Pretty tame list.
April 17 2013 at 9:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat fat slob Adele needs to be humbled...no one should buy her albums. At least Elton John is a legend.
April 17 2013 at 8:28 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyYour moms a fat slob.
April 21 2013 at 1:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythat fat **** adele should be happy anyone even listens to her shitty music.
April 16 2013 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyYou mad bro? Fag.
April 21 2013 at 1:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHe earned the money, he can do WHATEVER THE **** HE WANTS. **** all of you, ignorant hypocritical pieces of ******* ****. He has no reason to not use his money, even if it was on something strange like this. Don't assume it's an ego thing, and don't look down on him because you assume it is. AND THEN IF YOU READ IT'S NOT EVEN TRUE. You homophobic bastards disgust me with your blatant ignorance. Stop being butt hurt over someone because they have more money than you. That's what children would do.
March 19 2013 at 3:23 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyWOOT right on! Like it or not his style has become something of an icon. Everyone is just jealous that he can pull off wearing those outfits. I would kill for a pair of his glasses.
April 12 2013 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHEY GUYS . . . this is America! Where'd you get so mean? If this popular performing artist wants something weird, let him have it so long as it's legal and doesn't hurt anybody. Go watch your mangling pro football, logger/swampfolks/wrestling TV, slasher/carchase/crash movies and shut the .... up.
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