#fats domino

[fuckyeahpaulmccartney]

"When you get right down to it, in everything I've ever done - The Beatles, Wings, solo - there's an undercurrent of black music. You could say it's blues, but it could be soul. So many of the white groups looked to the black players and singers for inspiration. If you think of The Beatles' early stuff, it was mostly covers of black guys: 'You Really Got a Hold on Me', 'Twist and Shout'. We loved Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard. Then there were the white guys - Elvis, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis - who were already influenced by the black guys. So, even though we were admiring these white guys, we were admiring white guys who admired black guys. That's definitely the underpinning of almost everything I've done." - Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021

[jedivoodoochile]

This is a photo of Brian Auger (on top) with Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Fats Domino. It's not photoshopped - they actually stacked the pianos. Taken on the set of the Monkees TV special ‘33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee’, 1969.

©️NBC/Getty Images

[citizenscreen]

Remembering Fats Domino, born on February 26, 1928 #botd

[robotpussy]

Disclaimer:

This is part of a series of polls I want to make. This set of musicians are those who were making rock music prior to the late 1970s/1980s, (That is why artists like Prince and Tina Turner are not featured on here). As well as this not including subgenres of rock like punk, metal, funk rock and so forth.

I also just wanted to make this so I could probably get some suggestions on BLACK musicians that made rock music. It's not a contest, I just want to see which musicians some people like and for this to be a way for people to discover them.

Other Polls:

Punk

Metal

Randomly selected musicians in rock

[justbusterkeaton]

Tribute To Josephine The Monkey

Buster’s Beautiful Leading Lady In The Cameraman (1928)

Music: My Girl Josephine by Fats Domino

[theprofessorofdesire]

[myimaginaryradio]

Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino

[twixnmix]

Ads for Wampler's Ballarena in Dayton

Duke Ellington - January 29, 1960

Lloyd Price - March 13, 1960

Fats Domino - October 22, 1961

Ike & Tina Turner - June 1, 1962

Jackie Wilson - May 19, 1963

Bobby Blue Bland - November 15, 1963

James Brown - November 20, 1964

Lloyd Price / Erma Franklin - August 15, 1965

Four Tops - July 9, 1966

[postcard-from-the-past]

American singer Fats Domino on a vintage postcard

[ifelllikeastar]

Fats Domino learned to play the piano in about 1938 from his brother-in-law, the jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett. By age 14, he was performing in New Orleans bars. In 1947, bandleader, Billy Diamond accepted an invitation to hear the young pianist perform at a backyard barbecue. Domino played well enough that Diamond asked him to join his band, the Solid Senders, at the Hideaway Club in New Orleans, where he would earn $3 a week playing the piano.

Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. was born February 26, 1928 and died on October 24, 2017 at the age of 89.

[musickickztoo]

Fats Domino

February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017

[darling-chris]

There was always a piano in my home when I was growing up, and my father wanted me to become a concert pianist ~ unfortunately for him I discovered Fats Domino ~~

- Christine McVie

[vintage-tigre]