Indeed, Domino’s first single was a hard-rocking track entitled “The Fat Man,” in which the singer crowed about his scale-crushing weight. and Rick Ross boasted of their luxuriant meatiness, Antoine “Fats” Domino had been there and done that. It would be the grossest of understatements to say Fats Domino was ahead of his time. It’s impossible to overlook the musical frame of Domino’s life. Just as Domino helped push swing music to the margins of cultural relevance in the 1950s, so does Domino’s death mark a complete torch-passing from the rock- and rhythm and blues-loving baby boomers to the rap-loving Gen Xers and millennials. Fats Domino, a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 1986 inaugural class, a recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, died Oct.
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