Word: vegas
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Heinicke was also in a position to ensure that the council didn't repeat mistakes made with the Suzanne Vega and Ziggy Marley concerts. But once again, the council did not gauge student interest in De La Soul, and the event drew only a tiny number...
Criticism has also centered on the council's inability to produce a successful concert. In addition to last year's De La Soul performance, the council absorbed a deficit of $15,000 from a failed Ziggy Marley concert two years ago. And in 1989, a Suzanne Vega appearance cost the group...
MAYBE THIS IS THE LIBERATION OF SUZANNE VEGA. Hearing DNA's hip-hop remix of her popular tune Tom's Diner has obviously encouraged the breathy folk singer to venture beyond the safety of her acoustic guitar. Her latest album, 99.9 F degrees, is a bold experiment in both verse and technology, with Vega's haunting images now pegged to electronic percussion and warped-sounding keyboards. Two of the more raucous songs, Rock in This Pocket and Fat Man and Dancing Girl, are even hot enough to hit the dance circuit. But unvarnished Vega fans need not fret: the album...
...another journey into the deep was inspired by Chynna Phillips' painful memories of being sexually molested as a child. (The assailant was not a family member.) Where Are You? picks up where Suzanne Vega's 1987 pop hit about child abuse left off. The gently rocking tune triumphantly attests to the possibility of letting go of hurt and self-blame: "You don't have to look out that window/ Anymore/ You can come back to yourself...
Aronberg defended Beys and the council for trying to organize a concert--an endeavor which has repeatedly ended in bitter failure for the body which lost $35,000 on a 1989 Suzanne Vega concert and $25,000 on a 1990 Ziggy Marley concert...