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Tori Amos: Thank You

If you know Tori Amos, you’ll know how critical Led Zeppelin was to the evolution of the what and the how of Tori’s musicianship. This piano/voice cover of Thank You comes from the UK release of Winter (or the US release of Crucify). Take your pick.

“I think it’s great that Zeppelin is getting played a lot, I think they’ve inspired so much music….and people go back to those records, because they are a bench-mark, no different than The Beatles. It’s very similar. Well I try, again, when I do a cover, I try and approach it from… OK, the piano will look at me sideways and she’ll go, ‘How can we put this in our language, and honour it?’, because their version is always, you know, the definitive. And now how can we bring it to this instrument? The piano, which I think has been stigmatized. The piano isn’t given her due. And a lot of times she’s relegated to sappy-crappy pop music, or you know, just strict classical music.”
Tori Amos, Interview On JJJ FM Radio, Australia, 26 February 1996

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