My wife introduced me to Fountains of Wayne. They reminded me of Squeeze; their songs were memorable, literate, and just a little bit short of being great. While Bruce Springsteen wrote songs about working people and teenagers that turned them all into heroes of a sort, the characters in FOW songs mostly sounded like hapless middle-class people in an NBC sitcom. That may not be Beethoven, or the Beatles, but it’s certainly a lot more interesting than most of the material you hear on the radio today.
In all likelihood, Schlesinger will only be one of numerous prominent musicians who will die in the pandemic. Please tell Dylan, McCartney, Jagger, Townshend, et. al. to stay inside, OK?