’50S ROCK N ROLL ICON, FATS DOMINO, REMEMBERED FATS DOMINO circa 1955 (Credit: Getty Images; Photo inserts: Detroit Free Press; 12/01/1956 and 08/17/1957) Fats Domino, Early Rock ‘n’ Roller Pioneer With a Boogie-Woogie Piano, Is Dead at 89 DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, December 1, 1956 (Note: The Graystone Ballroom was located 4237 Woodward in downtown Detroit) DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, August 17, 1957 (Note: The Shubert Theater was located 153 Laffayette in downtown Detroit) DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, February 18, 1958 (click on image 2x for largest detailed view)
Farewell Fats, you would always be remembered as one of the early pioneers of R&B.