''Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll.'' By Rick Coleman. Da Capo Press. 364 Pages. $26.95. Fats Domino should not be remembered only for surviving Hurricane Katrina. Many ...

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. was an American pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top ...

The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina only emphasized the fact that New Orleans was perhaps the wellspring of popular music in the 20 th Century-the source, or a major tributary, of jazz, blues, gospel, ...

To call Rick Coleman's Fats Domino biography a case of Peter Guralnick lite is probably a bit cynical. After all, I, too, wish I could write like Guralnick. Guralnick is the reigning king of rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antoine "Fats" Domino, who passed away a bit over a week ago at the age of 89, was a rock 'n' roll pioneer and a major star who ...

Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr., the pianist, singer and lifelong New Orleanian who was among the most successful but also the most modest of rock ’n' roll's founding fathers, died Tuesday at his home in ...

How do you secure Fats Domino’s blessing for your documentary? If you’re filmmaker Joe Lauro, you ply him with rare footage of the boogie-woogie piano players he idolized. In the years before ...

In 1960, when Fats Domino could have built a mansion anywhere on earth, he chose the corner of Caffin and Marais in the Lower Ninth Ward, a few blocks from where he was born and raised. Over the ...

In 1964, a bunch of rock 'n' roll legends met face-to-face in New Orleans. The Beatles were in the Big Easy for their City Park concert that September and were determined to meet one of their idols, ...

Fats Domino performs his version of "Blueberry Hill." In this clip from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956, Fats Domino performs his version of "Blueberry Hill." Domino's recording of the song became an ...

The moments in my life in which I experience the least complicated kinds of joy are usually when I’m listening to a record by a piano player from New Orleans: Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair, ...