Fats.

There's not enough that can be written or expressed about Fats Domino.
So anything I might add will be insufficient.
Among legends, he was a legend.
Among great legends he was a great legend.
What he brought to the piano with driving pulsing and incredible left hand has never been equaled.
Fats, with his bejeweled fingers, was very cool.  In a way that Liberace never was.
No one was ever cooler than Fats.
And no effort ever seemed to go into it.
Ricky Nelson, before he started to complain about only singing about "memories being all there was to sing, he' rather drive a truck", managed to cover all of Fats hits.
He did it pretty well, and they even appeared together.
Fats always opened for Ricky.
He was so cool that he probably didn't give a shit.
He certainly didn't need to do it.
But Ricky wasn't a legend.
Fats was.
Maybe it was just a matter of "a buck's a buck'.  Although, I'm pretty sure that Fats didn't need the money.
Maybe he just liked the attention.
I just hope he is never forgotten.

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