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"My God, you guys, she's 21. Let her fit into tight pants," said Amos, her voice starting to rise as we talk at the Four Seasons Hotel.

"Let her explore and grow. I did. What is this you're not allowed to explore? Look at me now. I'm breast-feeding pigs."

Lisa Robinson's Backstage Pass in IGuide was a really interesting interview that appeared early in 1996 on the web, accompanied by great photos. Here is a sample quote from Tori:

"In our mind love and lust are really, really separated. It's hard to find somebody who's a kind person that you could leave your children with who'd be responsible and who also could throw their man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. I think it's difficult for people to say I am all these things; sometimes we just want to concentrate on being a 'nice person.' Well, I'm not interested in being a really nice person; I want to be a creative, responsible person that's balanced."

The article is called The Way To A Young Girl's Heart. Tori talks about many things, including her love of guacamole and chips.

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find On The Street in the list of articles.

Rolling Stone reviewed Boys For Pele in the January 23, 1996 issue, and only gave the album 2 stars. This review ties with the one for BFP that appeared in the May 96 Stereophile as most clueless review of the year. Remember folks, Rolling Stone is the magazine that said that Icicle was about rape when they reviewed Under The Pink!

Read this negative review.

Article is called The Feminine Musique.

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find Baltimore Sun in the list of articles.

This article covered the release of Boys For Pele and the plans to promote it. It was titled Amos Bares Soul on Atlantic Set.

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find Billboard Magazine in the list of articles.

Men No Longer God To Amos

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find New York Post in the list of articles.

Article is called Tori's New Album Fails To Communicate

You can read this Boys For Pele review at the Boston Phoenix Web site.

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find Boston Phoenix in the list of articles.

Tori Amos, flamed haired chanteuse, agony aunt to millions, and self-confessed vampire, talks to Rikky Rocksby about her "scary" new album. If you're of a sensitive disposition, read on.

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find Making Music in the list of articles.

Where The Girls Are

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find George in the list of articles.

You can read this article at the Fairy Tales web site. After you get there, scroll down and find Next in the list of articles.

Q Magazine in the U.K. featured a photo and small article on Tori in the January 1996 issue. William Wilson sent me the article which you can read below:

"But what rhymes with 'boob tube'?"
asks a noticeably-tattoed Tori Amos, adding the proverbial last touchesto the lyrics for her new album in New Orleans. Titled Boys For Pele (after the goddess of volcanoes rather than soccer hero Edson Arantes Do Nascimento), its recording was split between Louisiana and rural Ireland, where the ever-quixotic Tori insisted on being recorded in a box, specially constructed in a local church. Much ecclesiastical grumbling ensued (along "too big for confession" lines, one assumes), whereupon she guaranteed to dismantle and reassemble the wooden installation as the local parishioners demanded."