Before Adam Schlesinger fronted Fountains of Wayne, he was a member of the indie-pop trio, Ivy.
Surviving band members Andy Chase and Dominique Durand shared a half-hour tribute to the late musician and songwriter on YouTube Tuesday (Oct. 19th), featuring rare and previously unseen clips.
Chase and Durand explained in the caption, “We knew Adam Schlesinger for 30 years, and felt we should finally create an official IVY statement about who he was to us. We wanted to show a more intimate, human side to Adam – the friend, the father, the bandmate, the whirlwind force that he was – so we made this short film using exclusive home movies and photos. Hopefully this will help add more weight and color to the extraordinary legacy that Adam left behind.”
Schlesinger died on April 1st, 2020 at the age of 52 from complications of COVID-19.