Fats Domino
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The Alan Freed "Rock-n-Roll" Ball: St. Nicholas Arena, New York NY
Live Review by uncredited writer, Cash Box, 29 January 1955
THE ALAN Freed "Rock-n-Roll" Ball held at the St. Nicholas Arena, New York, on Friday and Saturday nights, January 14 and 15, had to be ...
Fats Domino: Cover Personality — No Change, Fats is Still at the Top
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 9 January 1960
ROCK MAY not be dead, but it certainly has changed, and so have most of the singers. They change to try to be different but ...
Fats Domino: The Man Who Sang Rock Before Haley
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 12 January 1963
HIS first million-seller was named after himself. Until last year he had more million-sellers than Elvis, who finally caught up with him after a hard ...
Fats Domino, Gerry & the Pacemakers: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 April 1967
FATS HAS 'EM JIVING IN THE AISLES! ...
Fats Domino, the Bee Gees, Gerry and the Pacemakers: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 1 April 1967
FATS TRIUMPH AT SAVILLE ...
Fats Domino: "I Should Have Been Here Years Ago"
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 8 April 1967
FATS DOMINO had, at last, come five thousand miles from home to visit Britain, be cheered by delirious audiences, and meet devoted fans who knew ...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 8 April 1967
DOMINO BRINGS A MISSISSIPPI TANG TO BRITAIN ...
Fats Domino & His Orchestra: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by John Broven, Blues Unlimited, 1 May 1967
LEGENDS ARE built with comparative ease in the anonymity of a recording studio. And how easily such myths are destroyed in the harsh reality of ...
Retrospective by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1969
IT WOULD BE nice to be able to point to a man, a record, a year, and say, "There! Rock and roll started with him, ...
Antoine Fats Domino: Fats Is Back (Reprise RS 6304)
Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 24 January 1969
ROCK ENTHUSIASTS sometimes like to quibble over just which rock and roll song started the whole thing: in the liner notes for this album producer ...
Albums from the MC5, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers et al
Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 7 May 1969
"I guess you could say our thing is a condemnation of everything that is false and deceitful in our society." — John Sinclair, of the ...
Made in New Orleans: Record Production Techniques and the Land Of Dreams
Overview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 24 May 1969
THERE WAS a time, not so long ago, when almost all the writing about popular music was descriptive or informative. ...
Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 30 March 1972
Fats goes to college, all his big hits and more, decked out in a double album that has a 12-page insert of pictures, information, analysis, ...
Fats Domino: Walking To New Orleans
Profile by Martin Hawkins, Record Mirror, 20 May 1972
IN RECENT years the music of New Orleans in the 50's has been well documented on albums, but maybe now is the time to be ...
Profile by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 28 April 1973
IF YOU asked someone who, apart from Elvis, has contributed the most to rock and roll, he'd probably say Chuck Berry, Little Richard or Jerry ...
Report by John Broven, Blues Unlimited, June 1973
IT HARDLY SEEMED three years ago that Robin Gosden and myself were making the same journey from his Weybridge home to Heathrow Airport. Nothing had ...
Fats Domino: Rockin' in Your Seat
Profile and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1976
FATS DOMINO is relaxing among his half-unpacked luggage, his glass-heeled shoes, his address-book, his diamonds and his Gideon Bible. ...
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 3 April 1976
RESPLENDENT IN sharp chrome yellow suit and diamond-studded rings and things, beaming with the joys of life, and seemingly untired by the series of interviews ...
Fats Domino: New Victoria Theatre, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 10 April 1976
WHAT CAN I do? What can I say? How exactly can I prostrate myself? I guess there's no excuse for a rock critic who goes ...
Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 April 1977
"I went on a two-week trial to Las Vegas... and stayed there for seventeen years" ...
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 1 April 1978
FATS DOMINO is and always has been the most unlikely looking bona fide Fifties rock and roller you can imagine. Where Elvis, Eddie and Gene ...
Interview: Fats Domino, November 9, 1978, Palumbo's Restaurant, Philadelphia, Pa.
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 9 November 1978
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE to escape Fats Domino's music growing up. 'Blueberry Hill', 'I'm Walkin'," and 'Walkin' To New Orleans' were staples of Top 40 radio. ...
Thorns In Velvet: Fats Domino and Ray Charles at the Capital Jazz Festival
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 1984
AMONG the collection of venerable antiques paraded for this year’s Capital Jazz Festival – couldn’t the organisers find anybody of note under the age of ...
Fats Domino: My Blue Heaven: The Best Of Fats Domino (Volume 1)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, February 1991
IN IDLE MOMENTS, it's often mildly amusing to visualise the stars of yesteryear, relaxing backstage at some oldies package show and taking bets on who ...
‘Fats’ Domino: A Free Ride For The Fat Man
Report by Charlie Gillett, MOJO, March 1995
Antoine ‘Fats’ Domino is making a killing from a song he had nothing to do with. Charlie Gillett tells the story of a bizarre credit ...
The Early Days of the "Rock 'n' Roll Comeback" Album
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, SonicBoomers.com, 2009
WHEN THE album-rock revolution hit full force in 1967, blues veterans were immediately in a great place to benefit. Revered by the new, young rock ...
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, August 2010
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In 2010, I put together a 4-CD box set for JSP Records which was never actually released. Year later, I produced a new ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Spring 2013
WHEN HURRICANE KATRINA devastated New Orleans in 2005, resulting in the deaths of some 1,833 people and causing property damage estimated at £1,300 billion, a ...
Review by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, March 2020
WAY BACK IN Blues & Rhythm 85 (published in January 1994), Tony Watson – in a special feature on the original Fats Domino Bear Family ...
Peter Guralnick Gets Lost in Profiles of Musical Giants
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 3 December 2020
PETER GURALNICK didn't set out to be a music journalist. The occupation didn't really exist at the time when a combination of luck and bluster ...
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