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 ...
"Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," his former bandmate George Clinton wrote in a tribute on Facebook Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in ...
"Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," George Clinton said in tribute. By Ashley Iasimone, Billboard Calvin Simon, who was a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and a Rock and ...
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 ...
One Nation Under a Groove is Funkadelic’s most successful album, and many consider it their best. But when George Clinton took the band on the road to promote the September 1978 release, he did it ...
The multi-talented musician was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997 Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and ...
George Clinton’s work with funk pioneers Parliament and the funk-rock hybrid Funkadelic revolutionized music. Credit: Shutterstock / Jason Benz Bennee Editor’s note: This story was corrected to update ...
Funkadelic’s first album not to be recorded in its hometown of Detroit, America Eats Its Young serves as a dramatic departure from its timeless predecessor Maggot Brain. On its fourth studio outing, ...
Calvin Simon, a founding member of the pioneering funk music group Parliament-Funkadelic, died Thursday at age 79. A cause of death was not immediately available. The news was confirmed Saturday by a ...
Plainfield's own George Clinton is suing his former business partner for "fraudulently" acquiring the rights to nearly 90% of his work. The singer-songwriter who founded the Parliament Funkadelic ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The composers of the hit song "Blurred Lines" have preemptively sued the owners of songs by late soul singer Marvin Gaye and funk band Funkadelic, asking a California federal ...
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 ...