Suzanne Vega: Live At The LSE, London.
Mick Brown, Guardian, The, 1985
Chess metaphors, the myth of Odysseus and the woman he left behind, being a "small blue thing", and, possibly if you listen hard enough, love flying on gossamer wings. These are a few of Suzanne Vega's favourite things.
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