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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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The ‘Strange Powers’ of the Magnetic Fields

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The Magnetic Fields

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Stephin Merritt from The Magnetic Fields plays songs from the band’s new album, Distortion, and talks to Faith about his music.

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