Stephin Merritt’s 69 Love Songs

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This weekend at Lincoln Center the Magnetic Fields perform their 69 Love Songs for the last time. Magnetic Field’s front man Stephin Merritt says he doesn’t write songs about love — he writes about love songs.

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