Actually, there were two deaths on Tuesday. One was Mel Green, an old friend and sort of a mentor to me in genetics when I was a postdoc (more on that tomorrow), who died in Davis at 101. The other was Antoine “Fats” Domino, who died yesterday in Harvey, Louisiana (right near New Orleans) at the age of 89. Given his rotundity, which gave rise to his nickname (he also was only 5’5″), I was surprised to learn he was still alive.
You can read his obituary at the Wikipedia link above, or in the New York Times, so I won’t reprise his life. Although one reader, who informed me of the death, guessed that I didn’t know much about Fats’s music, I certainly knew and appreciated many of his songs. The NYT points out his influence on the formation of rock and roll, and it’s a big…
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