“I was just playing along, and then, when the music stopped, I found myself still playing that riff”: How Tori Amos created her otherworldly hit song Cornflake Girl

Tori Amos.

When her debut album Little Earthquakes landed in 1992, Tori Amos shone out as a uniquely gifted artist who blended stunning piano skills with a deeply personal and confessional songwriting style.

Her label Atlantic Records had sent her to the UK in the belief that, as Kate Mossman wrote in the New Statesman, “eccentric women artists had a better chance of making it in the land of Kate Bush”.