Christina Aguilera insisted on vanilla-scented candles and four black bath towels and the Jonas Brothers requested room temperature apple juice as part of the their backstage riders at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

New mom Aguilera also asked for a space heater and two bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne as part of her pre and post-performance dressing room package and the Jonases added eight Red Bull Sugar free beverages, plus 6 regular Red Bulls and 24 pieces of California sushi rolls as part of their list of requirements.

The backstage lists, obtained by In Touch Weekly, also reveal Rihanna likes to chill out with Trish McEvoy blueberry candles, Buffalo wings and roasted chicken, spiced with jerk seasoning before shows, and Kid Rock requires Chap Stick, white crew socks and low fat raspberry yoghurts.

According to the publications, the four acts’ demands were met.

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Kid Rock has found an advantage to insomnia – he came up with the idea for his hit song All Summer Long during a restless night.

The star, 37, hasn’t slept properly in a long time – because he can’t stop dreaming up new tunes.

And he puts his recent hit – which samples Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama – down to another sleepless evening.

He says, “I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in years. My brain never stops. So I put a notepad by the bed and recorders around the house. It was during the early hours I got the idea for All Summer Long and it turned out to be huge.”

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Kid Rock has hit out at talk show queen Oprah Winfrey – because he “doesn’t believe” in her politics.

Chatshow host Winfrey has urged her viewers to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, turning up at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado to support the politician.

But Rock insists the media mogul’s rally around the Illinois senator has caused him to question his own vote.

He says, “When they all go, ‘I’m voting for this guy,’ I go, ‘That’s not who I’m voting for!’ …I love Barack Obama. I hate Oprah Winfrey. (No), I don’t hate her. I just don’t believe in her.”

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Kid Rock has been sentenced to 12 months probation and six hours of anger management classes after being arrested at a restaurant in October last year.

The singer, whose hit All Summer Long is riding high in the UK singles chart, has also been fined $1,000 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service for his role in a fight at a restaurant selling waffles in Atlanta, Georgia, the city’s Journal Constitution website reports.

The singer entered the Waffle House restaurant after performing at a concert in the area and allegedly soon became involved in an altercation with another customer.

The scuffle apparently took place after a man, identified by the media as Harlem DeJon Akins, approached a woman in the Cowboy star’s entourage and began speaking to her.

Soon afterwards Rock apparently intervened and a fight ensued which damaged property at the restaurant.

Rock, born Robert J Ritchie, pleaded no contest at a court in DeKalb county, Georgia, to one count of simple battery, while four other counts of battery were dropped.

In September 2007, Rock and Tommy Lee, both former husbands of Pamela Anderson, exchanged blows at the MTV video music awards. The former later said that he had hit Lee for disrespecting him.

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Kid Rock has backtracked over his recent controversial comments encouraging people to “steal” his music, insisting he was only joking.

The star – real name Robert Ritchie – posted a bizarre rant on video sharing website YouTube.com last week after announcing he is boycotting paid download website iTunes until they give him more money to sell his music.

In the video footage, Kid Rock claims he is happy to let fans download tracks for free because he’s “rich”. He then urges kids to steal laptops, MP3 players, cars and gas from retailers – because big businesses can afford the loss.

He said: “The whole debate on downloading music has gone too far. There are record companies suing kids. You can illegally download my music, steal it if you will. Because I’m f**king rich…”

“What I would encourage you to do? Let’s level the playing field. Steal everything. If you want a new MP3 player or a computer… Do you know how much money Apple and Microsoft have? Go in there, get a new laptop and run. You need a new car? Go steal a Toyota.”

But the 37-year-old is adamant his rant was meant in jest.

He says, “I was just trying to have some fun with it.”

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Kid Rock has posted a bizarre online rant, encouraging young fans to steal his music and anything else they want.

The star, who this week revealed he is boycotting paid download website iTunes until they pay him more to sell his music online, claims he is happy to let fans download tracks for free – because he’s “rich”.

He also urges kids to steal laptops, MP3 players, cars, and gas from retailers – because big businesses can afford the loss.

He says, “The whole debate on downloading music has gone too far. There are record companies suing kids. You can illegally download my music, steal it if you will. Because I’m f***ing rich. How can I bitch about you downloading a song or two. I can’t. What I would encourage you to do? Let’s level the playing field. Steal everything. If you want a new MP3 player or a computer… Do you know how much money Apple and Microsoft have? Go in there, get a new laptop and run. You need a new car? Go steal a Toyota.”

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Kid Rock is refusing to put his albums on internet music store iTunes – because he is not paid enough to do so.

The rocker has accused executives at owners Apple of not paying musicians enough money to sell their singles and albums through the download service.

He claims it was based on “an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don’t give it to the artists”.

He adds, “Back in the day, we all know the stories of the Otis Reddings and Chuck Berrys and Fats Dominos who never got paid.”

“So the internet was an opportunity for everyone to be treated fairly, for the consumer to get a fair price, for the artist to be paid fairly, for the record companies to make some money.”

“I will be on iTunes eventually because I can’t avoid it, but I like to always stick to my guns and prove a point and do something original and because I believe in it.”

Rock – real name Robert Ritchie – is the latest artist not to sign up to the service.

The Beatles, Garth Brooks and AC/DC have still not made their music available on iTunes.

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