https://www.loudersound.comenMusicCopyright Music @ Futurehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/831039a78105ac0c00679fec3e702abe.jpghttps://www.loudersound.comTue, 20 Jun 2023 13:06:40 +0000Music @ FutureMusic @ Futurefeeds@spreaker.comFrom 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 Nicky Horne with guests from the Classic Rock team, prepare...trueepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nirvana-nevermind--49125528https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49125528Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:00:02 +0000Music @ FutureThe 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 of Nevermind that made it so successful?360020millionclub,nevermind,nirvana,smellsliketeenspirittrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-dave-lee-roth-bruce-hornsby-it-bites--48908210https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48908210Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:37:31 +0000Music @ FutureThe 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 smash The Way It Is and the neo-prog-pop of It Bites' Calling All The Heroes.141220millionclub,20minuteclub,classicrock,classicrockmagazinetruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-peter-gabriel-s-sledgehammer--48630221https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48630221Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:11:34 +0000Music @ FuturePeter Gabriel's chart-busting Sledgehammer was inescapable in August of 1986. But what was it about the ex-Genesis man's single that so caught the imagination on both sides of the Atlantic? Was it just its bonkers video? Or was there more to it? The...1125gabriel,peter,sledgehammerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-movie-music-august-86--48456101https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48456101Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:40:49 +0000Music @ FutureIn 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 Pink. But why?1446johnhughes,movies,rock,topguntruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/repost-meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell--48388029https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48388029Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:12:50 +0000Music @ FutureIn memory of Meat Loaf, we've reposted this celebration of his classic game-changing album, Bat Out Of Hell. Big, daft and loveable, with gloriously huge songs about teenage love and going-all-the-way, Bat Out Of Hell was an album that was both...3415loaf,meat,meatloaftruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bon-jovi-slippery-when-wet--48012062https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48012062Mon, 27 Dec 2021 06:00:02 +0000Music @ FutureNicky, Sian and Paul discuss Bon Jovi’s hit record ‘Slippery When Wet’, discussing how the band managed to straddle between hair metal and heavy rock, how they upset Metallica and also they managed to take a heavy style of music and successfully bring...3347bon,bonjovi,classicrock,hairmetal,heavyrock,jovi,rock,slippery,wet,whentrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-sex-pistols-anarchy-in-the-uk--47943754https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47943754Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:00:02 +0000Music @ FutureIn which Scott goes on an impassioned but barely comprehensible rant about why certain punk bands mean so much more than, say, More Than A Feeling can ever hope to mean.134820millionclub,20minuteclub,punk,rant,rock,sexpistolstruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-boston-more-than-a-feeling--47928229https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47928229Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:10:43 +0000Music @ FutureIn 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 song?135220millionclub,20minuteclub,boston,classicrock,rocktruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-rod-stewart-tonight-s-the-night--47833661https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47833661Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:31:43 +0000Music @ FutureTonight'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 videos, the punk rock wars, comfy slacks and the source of THAT rumour about Rod.139820minuteclub,rock,rodstewarttruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eagles-hotel-california--47708486
FURTHER READING

1991 GQ interview with Don Henley about his 1980 arrest
https://archive.li/Gk6sp

The story of the death of Lana Rae Meisner, Randy Meisner's wife:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wife-of-eagles-randy-meisner-shot-and-killed-investigation-ongoing-191471/
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/07/entertainment/randy-meisner-wife-shooting-feat/index.html]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47708486Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:00:01 +0000Music @ FutureHow 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 of Hotel California brought a dark side: fist fights, scandals, arrests, and eventually genuine tragedy....
FURTHER READING

1991 GQ interview with Don Henley about his 1980 arrest
https://archive.li/Gk6sp

The story of the death of Lana Rae Meisner, Randy Meisner's wife:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wife-of-eagles-randy-meisner-shot-and-killed-investigation-ongoing-191471/
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/07/entertainment/randy-meisner-wife-shooting-feat/index.html]]>3657album,california,classicrock,eagles,hoteltrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-million-club-scorpions-wind-of-change--47656603https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47656603Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:16:54 +0000Music @ FutureWas the mighty Scorps' Wind of Change part of a CIA plot to bring down communism? And more importantly, can you whistle it?1134cia,rock,scorpions,whistling,windofchangetruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-guns-n-roses-you-could-be-mine-redux--47552673https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47552673Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:18:23 +0000Music @ FutureWas You Could Be Mine the moment GN'R sold out? (With apologies for the shonky audio on earlier version.)129020millionclub,20minuteclub,arnie,classicrock,gnr,gunsnroses,rock,terminator2truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-bryan-adams-everything-i-do-i-do-it-for-you--47411683https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47411683Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:57:23 +0000Music @ FutureDoes Bryan Adams' six-minute syrupfest have any redeeming features?116720millionclub,20minuteclub,bryanadams,classicrock,rocktruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/metallica-metallica-aka-the-black-album--47246242https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47246242Mon, 01 Nov 2021 07:00:18 +0000Music @ FutureNicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Paul Elliot take a deep dive into Metallica's 'Metallica' - or the Black Album as it's commonly known. They look at the influence of the controversial appointment of Bob Rock behind the mixing desk, how fans still...3614blackalbum,bobrock,jameshetfield,jasonnewsted,kirkhammet,larsulrich,metal,metallicatrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-million-club-the-hits-of-february-1977--47178119https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47178119Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:30:11 +0000Music @ FutureWe 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 Band and Kansas.157220millionclub,20minuteclub,bobseger,classicrock,classicrockmagazine,kansas,rock,statusquo,stevemillerbandtruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-thin-lizzy-don-t-believe-a-word--47059550https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47059550Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:56:09 +0000Music @ FutureHow a falling out between Phil Lynott and guitarist Brian Robertson led to 2.18 mins of killer riffs, blazing solos and clever lyrics.110520millionclub,classicrock,rock,thinlizzytruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-aerosmith-walk-this-way--46945046https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46945046Wed, 13 Oct 2021 05:10:10 +0000Music @ FutureShould revelations about Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?137720millionclub,20minuteclub,aerosmith,classicrock,rock,steventyler,walkthiswaytruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fleetwood-mac-rumours--46764207https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46764207Mon, 04 Oct 2021 03:00:13 +0000Music @ FutureNicky Horne and guests tackle the 6th best-selling original album of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Includes debates about Peter Green's Mac Vs the LA Years, the rise of 'grown-up rock', and the inner-band soap opera, while Nicky remembers going...3625bestseller,classic,classicalbum,fleetwood,mac,music,rock,rumourstrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-heart-alone--46743400https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46743400Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:18:47 +0000Music @ FutureThe 20 Minute Club looks at another single that was in the charts the same week as Appetite For Destruction was released: Heart's piano-bursting, lung-stretching, power ballad to end all ballad-powering, Alone.1154falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-whitesnake-here-i-go-again--46636155https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46636155Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:39:18 +0000Music @ FutureThe 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 release of Appetite For Destruction, with a look at Whitesnake's Here I Go Again.1234classicrock,rock,whitesnaketruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-minute-club-genesis-in-too-deep--46531107https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46531107Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:24:06 +0000Music @ FutureIntroducing The 20 Minute Club, a companion minipod to The 20 Million Club, covering singles that were in the charts at the same time as our featured album. First up: American Psycho, Mona Lisa and the "yuppie sex music" that is Genesis' In Too Deep.130520millionclub,20minuteclub,80s,americanpsycho,bobhoskins,classicrock,genesis,monalisa,philcollins,progtruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction--46401235
Make sure to like, subscribe, rate and review The 20 Million Club wherever you listen to your podcasts.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46401235Tue, 07 Sep 2021 04:00:11 +0000Music @ FutureThe 20 Million Club returns with Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Scott Rowley joined for the first episode by Paul Elliott, the first UK journalist to interview Guns N' Roses, as they chew over the sex, drugs and carnage behind the best-selling debut...
Make sure to like, subscribe, rate and review The 20 Million Club wherever you listen to your podcasts.]]>4414appetite,axl,classic,classicrock,destruction,for,guitar,gunsnroses,music,rock,rose,slashtrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-soon-the-20-million-club-season-two--46201216https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46201216Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:13 +0000Music @ FutureComing soon - The 20 Million Club Season 2. New albums and new guests but the same topic. Why are these albums regarded as some of the greatest of all time? Make sure you like and subscribe to never miss an episode of the 20 Million Club.702,20,albums,blues,classic,club,magazine,metal,million,music,rock,seriesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell--462011858cff0cc5-bb35-49bd-9cee-76c86d1801eeThu, 18 Feb 2021 14:38:32 +0000Music @ FutureSeason 1 of The 20 Million Club ends with a look at the world's 3rd best-selling album – and possibly the most ridiculous. "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?" No idea what you're talking about, mate.3415truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon--4620119239e9b28c-42ab-415d-8d5a-60d05d4f2da4Tue, 02 Feb 2021 21:33:40 +0000Music @ FutureIt's lyrically bleak, musically bonkers and It only has five real songs on it. So how did TDSOTM become the 4th best-selling album of all time? This month, The 20 Million Club swap personal tales of Nick Mason and Storm Thorgeson and consider why Dark...4159truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/prince-purple-rain--46201189Is Prince's Purple Rain an all-time classic or an over-hyped and over-produced slice of 80s bunk? The team debate purple bananas, MTV, androgyny and the apocalypse, producer Adam listens to it for the very first time, and Nicky recalls the time he talked to Prince about trains.]]>48ec8567-377b-4d93-a34b-602182132770Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:21:03 +0000Music @ FuturePrince: Purple Rain Is Prince's Purple Rain an all-time classic or an over-hyped and over-produced slice of 80s bunk? The team debate purple bananas, MTV, androgyny and the apocalypse, producer Adam listens to it for the very first time, and Nicky...Is Prince's Purple Rain an all-time classic or an over-hyped and over-produced slice of 80s bunk? The team debate purple bananas, MTV, androgyny and the apocalypse, producer Adam listens to it for the very first time, and Nicky recalls the time he talked to Prince about trains.]]>4600truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/queen-queen-s-greatest-hits--46201195750b6700-0488-4b1e-b904-2e244a51eca5Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0000Music @ FutureQueen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s all-time best-selling album. But are greatest hits albums even proper albums, or is it a massive cheat? The team discuss the idea of The Album in the age of the playlist and go through the many highlights and...4083falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alanis-morissette-jagged-little-pill--46201191dac51f95-05bb-42c2-b8eb-a8de654e4da4Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:44:56 +0000Music @ FutureAlanis Morissette's 3rd album earned her 7 Grammy nominations, 4 wins, and went on to become the 13th best-selling album of all-time, selling more copies than any album by the Beatles or The Stones. Alanis is literally bigger than Elvis. The team try...3093truefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-iv--46201196e10d1178-adf8-45a0-84b9-bb2829504b6aWed, 16 Sep 2020 08:55:52 +0000Music @ FutureLed Zeppelin's 4th album was released in November 1971. Housed in an anonymous sleeve, with no band name and no album title, the record company feared that it was commercial suicide. The idiots. It became the band's best-selling album. Why? The team...4708falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ac-dc-back-in-black--46201193114332c3-09c1-405c-a138-f54b94b76f21Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:53:32 +0000Music @ FutureAC/DC’s 7th album was released on 25 July 1980. Their first with singer Brian Johnson, it came out just months after the death of Bon Scott, AC/DC’s previous frontman. Housed in a plain black sleeve, with a new singer and a tragic backstory, Back In...3678true1full