Friends theme song band The Rembrandts reflect on their surprising success 25 years later

Los Angeles Daily News

The Los Angeles-based pop duo consisting of Phil Solem and Danny Wilde topped the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and earned a Grammy nomination for “I’ll Be There For You." On Aug. 23, they'll release their first album in 18 years. “At the time, we thought it was pretty cool,” Wilde says of the song's enormous popularity. “But we were a little apprehensive about becoming that sort of TV theme band, you know? At the time it set our career off at an angle we weren’t really prepared for because that song became so huge. It was number one for eight weeks and we saw our audiences start to change from a cool, alternative, kind of theater crowd, into a lot of younger people and kids with their parents. We sort of turned into a matinee show and we were thinking, ‘What in the hell just happened?’”