PARLIAMENT Released Their Classic LP ‘MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION’ Today 50 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
15 December 2025
PARLIAMENT was a musical team formed in 1968 by colorful
funk icon George Clinton (aged 84 now), as a flagship act of
his P-Funk collective.
Clinton is regarded, along with James Brown and Sly Stone, as one of the foremost innovators of funk music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, alongside 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. In 2019, he and Parliament-Funkadelic were given Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Today 50 years ago, on 15 December 1975, Parliament
released their 4th LP, titled MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION.
Clinton: “We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in,
like the White House. I figured another place you wouldn’t think black people would be
was in outer space.
I was a big fan of Star Trek, so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a Cadillac, and we did all these James Brown-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang.”
Rolling Stone Magazine wrote: “It’s a parody of modern funk. Unlike the Ohio Players or Commodores, the group refuses to play it straight. Instead, Clinton spews his jive, conceived from some cosmic funk vision.”
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