Suzanne Vega
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Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Sunday Express Magazine, 1 November 1987
Suzanne Vega is, on her own admission, a most unlikely rock star. On stage at Sydneys Town Hall, rooted to the spot and hung with ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 5 February 2014
The singer/songwriter talks about her first album in seven years, Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles; her writing process and collaboration with Gerry Leonard; the influence of spiritualism and the Tarot, and sampling 50 Cent!
File format: mp3; file size: 12.7mb, interview length: 13' 54" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Suzanne Vega: Live At The LSE, London.
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 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 ...
Suzanne Vega: Vaguely Seeking Suzanne
Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 5 October 1985
I'D NEVER BEEN to a coffee-shop in New York's Greenwich Village before, but the Paradise was just as I'd imagined such a place to be ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, 1986
Suzanne Vega had a feeling and tried to imagine what shape this feeling would have if it had been an object. She imagined it small ...
Suzanne Vega: A Darker Shade Of Pale
Interview by Bill Prince, New Musical Express, 17 May 1986
WHO ARE the Dark People? We're told with typically elliptical detatchment by The Face that they're young Italian fatalists, spotted at parties in Turin and ...
Interview by Max Bell, No. 1, 12 July 1986
Max Bell meets Suzanne Vega. Pretty cosmic. ...
Suzanne Vega: "I loved the idea of the solitary wanderer with the guitar recreating Woody Guthrie"
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, January 1987
The small, shy voice of Suzanne Vega has finally found its audience. Steve Turner follows her passage from the New York folk clubs that first ...
Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing (A&M)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987
SUZANNE VEGA's first album I found promising but irritating: the Joni/Rickie Lee persona presented with a knowing, sickly coyness. As a harbinger of the singer-songwriter ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1988
THE FIRST time Suzanne Vega says "oral sex" it is most physically disturbing. But you get used to it after a while. Look, she's saying ...
Suzanne Vega: Godmother Of New Age
Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 14 April 1990
Suzanne Vega was brought up as a Puerto Rican, attended the neo-legendary New York School Of Performing Arts and went on to become the sensitive ...
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 16 May 1991
The classy, formerly independent label tries for a comeback ...
Suzanne Vega's Book of Dreams, Pt. 1
Interview by Paul Zollo, SongTalk, Winter 1991
"ALL THE MYSTERIES of life come in A minor," Suzanne Vega said, curled up on a couch in Hollywood. ...
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Independent, 1 February 1997
"I can't listen to Days of Open Hand without feeling like I'm getting hives. It was such a difficult album to make, I was doing ...
Songs of the Sirens: Lilith Fair
Report by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 28 July 1997
THEY READ tarot cards on the grass in the afternoon sun and danced under the moon to the sounds of Tracy Chapman. And before they ...
Lilith Fair: The Gorge Amphitheatre George, Washington
Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Spin, September 1997
"JUST A SECOND, just a second now," said Canadian performer Kinnie Starr as she abruptly swung her electric guitar down and stepped off the tiny ...
Suzanne Vega — Still in the spotlight
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 16 June 2007
IT'S 20 YEARS SINCE Tom's Diner, but Suzanne Vega sounds as contemporary as ever. ...
Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, November 2007
THE SONG 'Bound' on Suzanne Vega's quite brilliant new album, Beauty & Crime, finds her wondering "if you might still want me". ...
Report by Maura Johnston, The Village Voice, 4 August 2010
A late-'90s fest returns with great ideas (the Lilipad!), throwback headliners, and terrible marketing. ...
Suzanne Vega: The Sage, Gateshead
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 February 2014
The black-clad singer-songwriter gives her new album an ethereal feel, but still delivers her crowd-pleasing classics — and pays homage to a legendary fellow New ...
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