Victoria's secret? She's a great songwriter

(679)"I just needed my hands." The final line of Little Boots' debut album reveals the title. It comes at the end of a hidden track, a piano-and-voice number that tells the story of a girl - "beautiful in that sad kind of way" - who has a broken heart. After casting about for help, she eventually mends it herself, with "some Sellotape and glue". The song is slightly twee and represents the kooky side of Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots, that you see on YouTube in guileless, self-filmed moviett...

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