Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty) With its hypnotic fourstroke melody, “Tom’s Diner” is little more than an idea for a song. It's a composite of events ...

Suzanne Vega recalls sitting backstage at “The Arsenio Hall Show” in 1990 when her manager told her, “I need to play this thing for you.” The “thing” was an unauthorized remix of her a cappella song ...

“Tom’s Diner” is over 30 years old, but it’s built out of parts that are timeless. There are the lyrics, which read like the sort of observational, creative nonfiction you see threaded through your ...

Suzanne Vega’s songs are like Zip files: at first glance, the lyrics to “Luka” or “Zephyr and I” or virtually any of her tunes read like tersely elegant urban haiku. But upload the songs into your ...

With its hypnotic fourstroke melody, “Tom’s Diner” is little more than an idea for a song. It's a composite of events witnessed by Suzanne Vega at Tom’s Restaurant, on 112th Street and Broadway in New ...