Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt: 'I'm very, very familiar with unrequited love'

The singer on posing naked, growing a beard, and why Germans don't recognise the sound of a ukeleleHow long have you had a beard?A few months. I stopped shaving and discovered I was more popular. Maybe people can't see my ordinary, rather dour facial expressions as easily and so they don't seem to think I'm the total jerk they seemed to think I was before.You said your new single Andrew in Drag is (1) autobiographical – in what way?I write a lot of songs about unrequited love because I'm very,...

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