Who says a jazz band can't play dance music? Who says a rock band can't play funky? Who says a funk band can't play rock? Funkadelic came right out and asked these questions with their 1978 song "Who ...
Pedro Bell, whose wild, psychedelic album covers for Detroit cosmic funk band Funkadelic defined the influential group’s aesthetic, died Tuesday. He was 69. His death was confirmed by longtime ...
When the band morphed into the funk-rock ensemble Funkadelic in the late sixties, Haskins was an instrumental force in changing the band’s direction. He co-wrote some of the group’s earliest classics, ...
When Funkadelic's self-titled debut album came out on Feb. 24, 1970, it sounded like bits and pieces of all the music that influenced the group. But it also sounded nothing at all like anything that ...
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins Parliament-Funkadelic's former vocalist Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins has died. He was 81. "We are saddened to announce the passing of an original ...
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CALVIN Simon, the Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder, has passed away at the age of 70 as his bandmates have mourned the late artist’s death. Former P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins announced Calvin’s ...
Fifty years: a breath. A snap of the fingers. Or in the case of Funkadelic’s Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow—recorded in one day, with the whole band tripping on LSD—a single ageless ...
Bernie Worrell, a classically trained pianist who fathered a funky new musical language on the synthesizer, laying down hip-shaking, toe-tapping bass lines and melodies for George Clinton’s group ...
Photo Credit: Vickey Ford of Sneakshot for Okayplayer. In a report from The Blast, Worrell's widow claimed that Clinton manipulated his bandmates by giving them drugs in place of money, alleging that ...