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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: re: Who is Marlena? [sic]
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 08:45:52 EDT
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> From:	drutx!bjc

> I would be very interested to know if anyone knows if the 'Marlena' referred
> to in Susanne Vega's song 'Marlena on the Wall' is real or ficticious. 
> 'Marlena' is obviously featured in a painting, but I am very curious if
> this is a real person, who was she?  Who did the painting?

I have no wish to be pedantic, but it's Suzanne, not Susanne, and it's
Marlene, not Marlena. I wouldn't bother to mention it except that I've
twice seen a video for this song on MTV, and their credit line spells it
with a final "a", whereas on my cassette copy, it's spelled with a final
"e" everywhere.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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