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What do Ghost, Pink Floyd and Tchaikovsky have in common? They’re all rattling around inside the head of metal’s cello queen
WORDS: JONATHAN SELZER • PICTURE: NICK HODGSON
“ONE OF THE earliest tracks I remember is Sylvia by FOCUS. I had a great music teacher all the way through to until I was 18, and when he died recently, I went to his funeral and discovered he was in a band who used to play that song. So that was an important track, and it’s one I still listen to, and it’s one I still feel very fondly about. It’s incredibly uplifting as well.
“The children’s choir from PINK FLOYD’s Another Brick In The Wall was from a school near mine in Hackney, and that song was a big influence musically, along with [Floyd’s 1973 album] The Dark Side Of The Moon. I was continually discovering them all the way through my teens.