Fats Domino: Culture shaper

WHEN Michael Jackson died, on June 25, 2009 — already slipping into the mists of time — and when Prince died on April 21, 2016, the unexpected loss of two great musicians was all the more biting because they both died prematurely.

They were aged 50 and 57 respectively. So much more could have been expected from them.

When a founding father of today’s popular music Fats Domino — Antoine Dominique Domino Jr to his mother — died in New Orleans on Tuesday, he was 89 and he had given of his all. And what an impressive, influential “all” that was.