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Tori Amos: The Keys Girl

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 22 September 2011

Twenty years ago this month, Tori Amos was working from a London apartment and awaiting the October 1991 release of her debut solo EP, Me And A Gun. The Maryland native had relocated to the UK earlier in the year to assist in winning over the English media with her unique and confrontational piano pop, but at 28 she'd already tasted failure.

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