Nirvana: Nevermind
The record company thought it might sell 50,000 copies if they were lucky. It went on to sell 30m. What was it about the darkness and anger...
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The 20 Million Club
From the makers of Classic Rock magazine, The 20 Million Club looks at the biggest-selling albums of all time and asks: are they REALLY all that good? Hosted by British broadcasting legend N...
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20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby & It Bites
The team look at some of the other songs in the charts the week of August 18, 1986: Dave Lee Roth's Yankee Rose, Bruce Hornsby & The Range s...
20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel's chart-busting Sledgehammer was inescapable in August of 1986. But what was it about the ex-Genesis man's single that so caug...
20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86
In August 1996, the charts in the US and the UK were full of songs from the movies: Top Gun, The Breakfast Club, The Karate Kid, Pretty In P...
Repost: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell
In memory of Meat Loaf, we've reposted this celebration of his classic game-changing album, Bat Out Of Hell. Big, daft and loveable, with gl...
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet
Nicky, Sian and Paul discuss Bon Jovi’s hit record ‘Slippery When Wet’, discussing how the band managed to straddle between hair metal and h...
20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK
In which Scott goes on an impassioned but barely comprehensible rant about why certain punk bands mean so much more than, say, More Than A F...
20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling
In the charts, December '76, More Than A Feeling practically invented AOR and was an unlikely influence on grunge. But is it just a nice pop...
20 Minute Club – Rod Stewart: Tonight's The Night
Tonight's The Night was a US no.1 the week of Hotel California's release. Unbelievably, it's also the 19th biggest US single. We talk dodgy...
Eagles: Hotel California
How do you follow the best-selling album of the 20th century? By releasing the 5th best-selling original album, that's how. But the success...
20 Million Club - Scorpions: Wind Of Change
Was the mighty Scorps' Wind of Change part of a CIA plot to bring down communism? And more importantly, can you whistle it?
20 Minute Club – Guns N' Roses: You Could Be Mine (redux)
Was You Could Be Mine the moment GN'R sold out? (With apologies for the shonky audio on earlier version.)
20 Minute Club – Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Does Bryan Adams' six-minute syrupfest have any redeeming features?
Metallica: Metallica (aka The Black Album)
Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Paul Elliot take a deep dive into Metallica's 'Metallica' - or the Black Album as it's commonly known. They...
20 Million Club: The Hits of February 1977
We couldn't choose just one more song from Feb 1977, so instead we delve into hits by Bob Seger, Manfred Mann, Status Quo, the Steve Miller...
20 Minute Club – Thin Lizzy: Don't Believe A Word
How a falling out between Phil Lynott and guitarist Brian Robertson led to 2.18 mins of killer riffs, blazing solos and clever lyrics.
20 Minute Club – Aerosmith: Walk This Way
Should revelations about Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Nicky Horne and guests tackle the 6th best-selling original album of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Includes debates about Peter Green's...
20 Minute Club - Heart: Alone
The 20 Minute Club looks at another single that was in the charts the same week as Appetite For Destruction was released: Heart's piano-burs...
20 Minute Club – Whitesnake: Here I Go Again
The 20 Minute Club – our new companion mini-pod to The 20 Million Club – continues to cover singles from July 1987, the same month as the re...