When George Clinton started hatching plans to take his Parliament-Funkadelic crew on the road during 1976, he wanted to more than just put the band on stage to give up the funk, as it were. "What we ...

With the 1977 release of Live: P-Funk Earth Tour, funk legends Parliament jumped into the landslide of live albums, and tried to capture their incredible show on record. Parliament were a spectacular ...

Few sounds can match the inspiring freedom of funk, and one of the genre's most iconic and enduring bands is still ...

Pure, uncut funk across generations: Jay Worthy, George Clinton & Sean House join forces to keep the P-Funk legacy alive.

Calvin Simon, whose voice gave harmony to the sound of Parliament-Funkadelic and landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away Jan. 6 in San Antonio, Fla., said his assistant Bobbi Vickers ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bootsy Collins on 4/14/91 in Chicago,Il. . Parliament's 1975 concept album Mothership Connection is among the best of a dozen or ...

Throughout the 1970s, the midwest would prove to be a hotbed for great funk music, with the state of Ohio alone delivering artists like Catfish and Bootsy Collins, the Dazz Band, Zapp and The Ohio ...

Garrett Shider was never going to do that diaper thing. That was his father’s signature. Garry Shider — longtime singer, guitarist, songwriter and music director with George Clinton’s legendary ...

“Characters last longer,” Clinton said in the documentary One Nation Under a Groove. “Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse will last forever.” On Mothership, the band introduced the story’s hero, Starchild. On ...