February 24, 2020

Fats Domino ~ 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award

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On February 24, 1987, Fats Domino received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th annual Grammy Awards. It was two days before his birthday; what a great birthday present.      


photo by Skip Bolen

      
Three weeks later, school children from the Frikkemas School in Sneek, northern Netherlands, vied with each other for singer Domino's signature after he arrived at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam on March 13, 1987.       


Fats Domino - March 13, 1987 
Schiphol airport, Amsterdam 
photo by Hugo van Gelderen Anefo/​ AP


      
Thirty years later, Fats Domino died from natural causes on October 24, 2017, at his home in Harvey, Louisiana; he was 89 years old.      
         
    

          
Viewfinder links:        

Roy Acuff           
Benny Carter  
Enrico Caruso         
Ray Charles         
Fats Domino     
Woody Herman            
Billie Holiday        
B.B. King       
Igor Stravinsky       
Arturo Toscanini         
Hank Williams         
       
Net links:        
     
Billboard ~ Fats Domino: His Life in Photos         
Fats Domino website           
Grammy Awards ~ Fats Domino, Rock And Roll Icon, Dies       
Hits Daily Double ~ Fats Domino 1928-2017 obit       
        
YouTube link:        
        
"Fats" Domino         
         
        
       
          
       
Styrous® ~ Monday, February 24, 2020           
        









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