At 78, funk pioneer George Clinton has slowed down a bit, but his creativity is constant and clear. “It’s harder to retire than it was to put down the pipe,” he says.
George Clinton has reinvented himself enough for several lifetimes. During one of his many primes, he led the funk music vanguard as a multitalented bandleader. In the mid to late 1970s, Clinton merged his groups Parliament and Funkadelic into a super band of over 10 musicians known for their legendary P-Funk sound.
Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic’s wild imagination and intuitive knack for branding were the driving forces behind the group’s Afrofuturistic aesthetic that defined the era. In the ’80s, the band fell apart...
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