Y Kant Tori Read was a 1980s synthpop band, fronted by then unknown singer-songwriter Tori Amos. The band released one album, also called Y Kant Tori Read, which bombed miserably. The band originally consisted of Amos, Steve Caton, and several musicians that they worked with at the time. When they were signed to Atlantic Records through record producer Joe Chicarelli the other musicians were dropped. Kim Bullard, later of Kajagoogoo, and Matt Sorum, later of Guns N' Roses, were brought in to flesh out the band for the album. The name comes from an incident in Tori's childhood where she was asked to leave the Peabody Conservatory because she refused to read sheet music.*David Wallechinsky & Amy Wallace: The New Book of Lists, p.9. Canongate, 2005. ISBN 1-84195-719-4. As a result of Amos' later success, early in her career copies of the album in its various formats would sell for thousands of dollars, partic