Boy band wiped out by tragedy 24 years since huge summer hit
ok.co.ukThe names Brad, Rich and Devin might not mean much. You may even struggle to remember that the threesome made up the 1990s US pop/hip hop boy band Lyte Funkie Ones, or LFO for short.
But while they may never have experienced a level of fame enjoyed by their boy band contemporaries like 'NSYNC (who recently reunited at MTV's VMAs) and Backstreet Boys, there was a time when their hit song Summer Girls were never far from excited teens' lips, with its memorable lyrics: "I like girls that wear Abercombie & Fitch, I'd take her if I had one wish, but she's been gone since that summer..." As the band – comprising Brad Fischetti, Rich Cronin and Devin Lima, – recorded their sun-drenched video for Summer Girls on the pier and beach of New York's Coney Island amusement park in 1999, they looked the full package, with great looks and buff bodies.
Little did they know the unimaginable tragedy to come, that would wipe out LFO for good. Formed in 1995, when Rich and Brad met original member Brian 'Brizz' Gillis in New Bedford, Massachusetts, LFO initially struggled to find fame.
It wasn't until Brizz left the group in 1999, and Devin joined, that they found chart success with Summer Girls, reaching No 1 on the US Billboard singles chart and No 16 on the UK's Official Singles Chart.The song was packed full of 80s and 90s references, including Cherry Coke, actors Macaulay Culkin, Kevin Bacon and Michael J Fox, New Kids On The Block and, of course, Abercrombie & Fitch.
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