'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Songwriter Dies from Coronavirus
by EG
Adam Schlesinger, frontman for the band Fountains of Wayne, has died of complications from COVID-19. Schlesinger co-wrote many of the songs on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and for the film That Thing You Do! He was 51 years old. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Adam Schlesinger, a native of New Jersey who fronted the band Fountains of Wayne, died on Wednesday due to complications from the coronavirus. He was 51.
Schlesinger, a singer-songwriter for the acclaimed 90s group, died at a hospital in upstate New York, his lawyer Josh Grier said.
The artist, a 51-year-old father of two, received three Grammy awards for his songwriting credit on several television shows.
Schlesinger was also nominated for an Academy Award for penning the song behind the 1997 movie “That Thing You Do,” about a fictional one-hit wonder band from the 1960s.
Tom Hanks, who directed the movie, tweeted about the musician.
“Lost him to Covid-19,” Hanks wrote on Twitter. “Terribly sad today.”
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