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“It felt like every song was 20 minutes long. It was not comfortable”: Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her groundbreaking 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

Suzanne Vega.

Suzanne Vega has been talking about one of the hairier moments from her long career - when she received death threats before the biggest gig of her career up at that point: headlining the 1989 Glastonbury Festival.

Speaking to The i, she revealed that she took the threats extremely seriously, to the point of wearing a bulletproof vest. “Scotland Yard sat me down and said, ‘We advise you not to do the show.’ I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

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