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Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock and Roll

by Rick Coleman

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24 April 2006

by Bill Gibron

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The first real literary look at Antoine "Fats" Domino and his legitimate claim as the true king of rock and roll is an ambitious but frequently overreaching book.

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