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Tori Amos is Jools' guest

Tori Amos guests in the first of a new series, singing live with Jools and the band, and picking favourite songs.

Tori Amos guests in the first of a new series, picking some of her favouriite records and covering a Chas'n'Dave song live!

Tori is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range.

Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She was expelled at the age of eleven for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination."

Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics and religion.

Her 15th studio album - "Native Invader" - has just been released.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Little Richard

    Hey - Hey - Hey - Hey!

    • Heavy Sugar.
    • Fantastic Voyage.
    • 1.
  • Earl Palmer's Party Rockers

    Johnny's House Party Pt. 2

    • Backbeat Earl Palmer.
    • Ace.
    • 14.
  • Tori Amos

    Big Wheel

    • Epic.
  • Led Zeppelin

    When The Levee Breaks

    • Led Zeppelin - Early Days.
    • Atlantic.
  • Stevie Wonder

    Living For The City

    • Universal.
  • Tori Amos

    Wings

    • Native Invader.
    • Decca Records.
    • 2.
  • Tori Amos with Jools Holland and Band

    London Girls

  • Tori Amos

    Up The Creek

    • Native Invader.
    • Decca Records.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Oct 2017 23:00