He said Adam Schlesinger "deserves to be remembered for more than a punch line" Chris Collingwood has said he knew Fountains Of Wayne would forever be associated with their “novelty” hit single ‘Stacy’s Mom’ and not for the quality of their other songs.
The former Fountains Of Wayne guitarist was being interviewed in the wake of co-founder Adam Schlesinger’s death from coronavirus complications last week when he addressed the band’s Grammy-nominated 2003 single. “I tried to talk [Schlesinger] out of ‘Stacy’s Mom,'” Collingwood told Rolling Stone. “I could see exactly what was going to happen, and when it started happening in slow motion it just felt inevitable.