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Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger dies of COVID-19 complications at 52

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Adam Schlesinger, a founding member of the New Jersey pop-rock band Fountains of Wayne and an Emmy-winning songwriter in his own right, has died.

He was 52. Schlesinger had been on a respirator in hospital for the past two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19. His lawyer confirmed to the New York Times that Schlesinger died of complications relating to the novel coronavirus. Read Next: Josie and the Pussycats are the best fake rock band ever Best known as the songwriter behind Fountains of Wayne, who scored a huge hit with 2003's "Stacy's Mom" but have a criminally underrated catalog outside of that, Schlesinger also had hugely influential and successful career writing for film, TV, and theatre.

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