Fats Domino

[Rocky]

Fats celebrated his 87th birthday quietly at his home in New Orleans on February 26th, with a white birthday cake with black music notes surrounding it. Party attended by some long-time friends and band members.

[bailbath]

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thehallicasserjayneshow/2016/02/24/fats-domino-the-birth-of-rock-n-roll

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[Dirk B.]

Pictures from Fats's 87th birthday

[Dirk B.]

Some recent photos from Fats' 88th birthday:

[wolfgangguhl]

Fats Domino in 2010 (I have never seen this footage before):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7N_Gd52HA

[john1]

Fats and the Byrds GREAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... XNlakc9Vcw

[rockin532000]

Just heard it: Fats is dead!

Best Wishes
Joerg

[PeterC]

Just heard it: Fats is dead!

Best Wishes
Joerg

Unfortunately it's true! His death deserves a thread of it's own:

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3442

[Dirk B.]

Fats Domino on the austrian TV show "Spotlight". I have a Bill Haley and his comets-concert from the same TV show on DVD, but didn't know Fats also appeared on one of the episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OifbG-J6W28

[wolfgangguhl]

https://www.bear-family.com/domino-fats ... POnvCSci3Q

[Dirk B.]

That's the next time Bear Family re-does a box. They already put out the 8 CD Fats Domino set "Out of New Orleans", which I own. I also have a 3 CD set called "The Paramount Years", so I'm not sure if I really need this new item. On the other hand: The latest boxes Bear Family did on Chuck and Jerry Lee are probably the finest rock'n'roll releases ever made.

[wolfgangguhl]

They have a tendency to concentrate too much on the old stuff, but the quality of their box sets is usually excellent.

They were also working on a Bo Diddley box set, but Universal Music would not give them the rights to his songs, so the project has been scrapped.

[Dirk B.]

A box set of the complete Fats stuff would have been great - all studio recordings including "Sleeping on the job", the christmas album and "Alive and kickin'" plus the official live albums.

[wolfgangguhl]

That's true, Dirk, plus unreleased recordings from later days.

[Dirk B.]

Fats being interviewed in 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_PuJdfzO_g