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Tori performed a snippet of this song live, in-concert, in a medley (along with Onward Christian Soldier and A Spoonful Of Sugar) during the Dew Drop Inn Tour in Burlington VT on May 7, 1996.
"Obviously, you don't do something that doesn't speak to you. But there are things that have influenced me which I stay away from because I know I don't have the right read on them." Such as? "Dream On by Aerosmith, but I don't know. My Like A Virgin cover really shouldn't get out, although..."
-- Tori; L.A. Weekly, Sept 17, 1998
RS: You've done a few covers in your day. Would you ever do a Madonna song?
T:I did do a cover of Like A Virgin that has never left the studio.
RS:Tori, we need to be hearing that!
T:It's never gonna happen.
-- Tori; Rolling Stone Magazine, September 30, 1999
...there is nothing elegant about the subjects she addresses in conversation, let alone in her songs: rape, miscarriage, sacrilege, death. These indelicate matters aren't what gets Amos blushing on this blustery spring afternoon, however. She chuckles with embarrassment only when acknowledging that, yes, she has performed certain pop songs that will never, ever see the light of day. Like cover versions of Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield and Madonna's Like A Virgin, which she worked up one giddy evening in a British farmhouse while recording her latest album, From the Choirgirl Hotel. "My Like A Virgin is absolutely vulgar -- it can't be played anywhere; it's not even for cable," she says with a laugh, fumbling the cup inches from her lips and dripping broth onto the hotel couch.
-- Tori; Chicago Tribune, May 17, 1998
"But I have done have a cover of Love Is A Battlefield, I was, um, we were, something was going on in the studio when we were recording Choirgirl and Johnny makes these red little drinks with s___, and so the band was there and we're not usually overly lush, but there is this, too many storms, too many problems, and some how, these little red drinks were going around, and I end up doing this cover of Like A Virgin, which is just, um, vulgar...and Love Is A Battlefield, and I threatened divorce if these tapes came out."
-- Tori; KDGE (94.5FM) The Edge Radio Interview, Dallas, TX, 11/4/98
I: This one comes from Earl, very simply - Earl, and he wants to know which is your favorite song of each other�s.
T: �One Hand in my Pocket�. I love that song.
Alanis: Wow. There are so many that I love, it would be really tough to say, but I think anything off Little Earthquakes is my favorite, I think everything you do-
T: I thought you were going to say, Like a Virgin.
Alanis: [laughs] Like A Virgin was a really great one that you did!
-- Tori & Alanis; SonicNet/MTV.com online chat, Aug 17, 1999
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