Chris Collingwood | |
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 Collingwood performing live on stage in 2007. | |
| Background information | |
| Born | October 3, 1967 United Kingdom |
| Origin | Sellersville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Genres | Power pop, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, songwriter, producer |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, vocals, keyboards |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Chris Collingwood (born October 3, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, and artist. He is best known as the former lead vocalist and founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne.
In 1995, Collingwood and Schlesinger formed Fountains of Wayne. They recorded one album, titled Fountains of Wayne, before recruiting Jody Porter and Brian Young, a year later in 1997.
Though Collingwood and Schlesinger shared cowriter credit for all original Fountains of Wayne material, for most of their career together, they wrote their songs separately. The band won a Grammy for their song Stacy's Mom, in 2004. Stacy's Mom is still considered one of the band's best songs, charting at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2006, the band was touring in Tokyo, Japan, when Collingwood experienced a mental breakdown. Prior to his breakdown, he had been experiencing hallucinations for two days, and was sleep deprived and mentally unstable to the point in which he didn't believe he was actually in Japan. Due to this, the performance was cancelled, and Chris spent time recovering in hospitals in both Japan and the United States. Chris was would later recall this event, stating: [1]
Every town you go to, they want there to be a party and everywhere you go, there's free liquor... You end up turning your entire tour into a party. When we were in Japan in 2006, I hadn't slept in four, five days and started hallucinating in Tokyo. I ended up going to the hospital and they were pumping me full of sedatives to put me to sleep. It happens to meth heads – not sleeping, seeing shadow people and having horrific hallucinations. Nothing ever scared me more than just not being able to control my own brain or trust what I'm seeing, hearing or feeling.
After many years as an alcoholic, Chris became sober by 2011. He would become more involved in the production of their album, Sky Full of Holes , although, it would end up being the hardest for the group to make, collectively: [1]
The most recent record was definitely the hardest that we've ever done. I think I'm partly to blame for that. I checked out on the previous record, so when I came back in, I had to assert myself. Every single thing about that record was a fight. It was not this blissful reconciliation that led to the release; it was a brutal thing right up to the end. We'll see what happens if we end up making another record.
The band split up in 2013. Despite departing, the band never issued a statement about their endings, and fans started to speak about the band in past tense by 2016.
Schlesinger died in 2020 and the surviving band members held an online charity event shortly after (the first time the band had played with each other since their 2013 split), to help raise funding for the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund.
Collingwood released his debut album as a solo artist in 2016, under the band Look Park. The album also included contributions by: Davey Faragher (bass), Mitchell Froom (keyboard/producer), Mike Viola, Flora Reed, and Philip Price (all backing vocals), and was engineered and mixed by David Boucher. [2]
Collingwood was born in Britain and grew up in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. [3] He graduated from The Hill School. [4] He attended Williams College alongside his future Fountains of Wayne bandmate Adam Schlesinger. [5] The two collaborated several times prior to the formation of Fountains of Wayne.
Collingwood currently lives in the New England region of the Northern-Eastern United States. He has been married to Linda Stevenson since 1996.
Collingwood's major influences are The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, Aztec Camera, Squeeze, and Blue Öyster Cult. [6]
| Title | Details |
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| Fountains of Wayne |
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| Utopia Parkway |
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| Welcome Interstate Managers |
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| Traffic and Weather |
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| Sky Full of Holes |
| Title | Year |
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| "Radiation Vibe" | 1996 |
| "Sink to the Bottom" | 1997 |
| "Survival Car" | |
| "Barbara H." | |
| "I Want an Alien for Christmas" | |
| "Leave the Biker" | 1998 |
| "Denise" | 1999 |
| "Red Dragon Tattoo" | |
| "Troubled Times" | |
| "The Valley of Malls" | 2000 |
| "Stacy's Mom" | 2003 |
| "Mexican Wine" | 2004 |
| "Hey Julie" | |
| "Maureen" | 2005 |
| "Someone to Love" | 2007 |
| "'92 Subaru" | |
| "Richie and Ruben" | 2011 |
| "Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart" |
| Title | Year |
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| Look Park | 2016 |
Fountains of Wayne was an American rock band that formed in New York City in 1995. The band included founding members Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter, and Brian Young. They released six albums from 1996 to 2011 before effectively disbanding in 2013. They are best known for the Grammy-nominated song "Stacy's Mom".
James Yoshinobu Iha is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the band's initial breakup in 2000 and rejoined in 2018.
"Stacy's Mom" is a song by American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It is the third track on their third studio album, Welcome Interstate Managers, and was released to radio as the album's first single on May 19, 2003, through S-Curve Records and Virgin Records. "Stacy's Mom" was written by bassist Adam Schlesinger and vocalist Chris Collingwood, both of whom produced the song alongside Mike Denneen. Its subject matter was inspired by a friend of Schlesinger's when he was young who was attracted to Schlesinger's grandmother. It is a power pop song with which the group hoped to emulate the sound of American rock band the Cars.
Welcome Interstate Managers is the third studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released by S-Curve Records on June 10, 2003. The album contains the power pop single "Stacy's Mom," which reached number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's highest-charting hit in the United States.
Utopia Parkway is the second studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released by Atlantic Records in April 1999.
Fountains of Wayne is the debut studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released on TAG Recordings, Scratchie Records, and Atlantic Records in 1996.
Ivy was an American indie pop band composed of Andy Chase, Adam Schlesinger, and Dominique Durand. They were active between 1994 and 2012.
Adam Lyons Schlesinger was an American musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was a key songwriting contributor and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High. He also wrote songs for television and film, for which he won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award, and was nominated for Academy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards.
Brian Young is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known as the drummer of the New York–based, Grammy-nominated power pop band Fountains of Wayne and Seattle-based alternative rock band The Posies. From 2012 to 2021 Young was the drummer for the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Jody Porter is an American musician. He was the lead guitarist of Grammy Award-nominated power pop band Fountains of Wayne. The band released four major label albums, including Welcome Interstate Managers on Virgin Records in 2003, an RIAA-certified Gold LP. The album spawned the hugely popular U.S. Top 40 hit and number 1 music video "Stacy's Mom".
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Andy Chase is an American musician, record producer, and label owner. He formed the band Ivy with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Dominique Durand, now his wife. Chase owns Unfiltered Records and co-owned Stratosphere Sound studio with Schlesinger and James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins.
Traffic and Weather is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released on Virgin Records in April 2007.
Tinted Windows were an American rock supergroup formed by guitarist James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins, singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. The band issued one album in 2009, and performed live in 2009 and 2010. Josh Lattanzi also often performed with the band as the second guitarist.
Tinted Windows is the eponymous album by American supergroup Tinted Windows. Tinted Windows was formed in New York City and consists of guitarist James Iha, previously of The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle, singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, and Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos. The album was recorded at Stratosphere Sound Studios in New York, which Schlesinger and Iha co-own with Ivy's Andy Chase.
The discography of Fountains of Wayne contains five studio albums, one compilation album, 16 singles, one DVD, six music videos and seven other appearances.
Sky Full of Holes is the fifth and final studio album by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was released on July 20, 2011, in Japan, on August 1, 2011, in Europe, and on August 2, 2011, in North America. It debuted at number 37 on the US Billboard 200, giving Fountains of Wayne their first Top 40 album on that chart, and debuted at number 16 on the UK independent chart.
"Radiation Vibe" is the debut single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album. It was released in 1996 on Atlantic Records.
"Sink to the Bottom" is the second single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album. It was released in 1997 and charted in the UK at No. 42 on May 10, 1997. It also reached No. 7 in Norway in 1998.
"Survival Car" is the third single by Fountains of Wayne, from their eponymous debut album. It was released in 1997 and charted in the UK at No. 53 on July 26, 1997.
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