{"id":131572,"date":"2017-10-25T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131572"},"modified":"2017-10-25T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:28:17","slug":"rock-n-roll-legend-fats-domino-passes-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131572","title":{"rendered":"Rock N Roll legend Fats Domino passes, 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New Orleans (AP) \u2014 Fats Domino, the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll pioneer whose pounding piano and easy baritone voice helped change popular music even as it honored the grand, good-humored tradition of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, coroner&#8217;s office, said Domino died Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/158533863?autoplay=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/158533863\">FATS DOMINO &amp; THE BIRTH OF ROCK &#8216;N&#8217; ROLL<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user20362289\">Halli Casser-Jayne<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fats_domino2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131573 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fats_domino2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>At least in appearance, Domino was no Elvis Presley. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds (91 kilograms), with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, and his 22 million-selling singles included &#8220;Blueberry Hill,&#8221; &#8221;Ain&#8217;t It a Shame&#8221; and other rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll standards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans (AP) \u2014 Fats Domino, the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll pioneer whose pounding piano and easy baritone voice helped change popular music even as it honored the grand, good-humored tradition of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89. Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, coroner&#8217;s office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131572"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131601,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131572\/revisions\/131601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}