Funk Master GEORGE CLINTON Who Turns 85 Today About His Funkadelic Band PARLIAMENT
22 July 2026
Funk master George Clinton was born 85 years ago today in North-Carolina. Happy B!
George Clinton
FUNKADELIC – George Clinton And His Collective Released Third LP ‘MAGGOT BRAIN’ Today 55 Years Ago
12 July 2026
Pivotal American collective FUNKADELIC (1968-1982) with multi-colored-hair
funk icon George Clinton as the orchestrator released their 3rd LP, named
MAGGOT BRAIN on 12 July 1971, today 55 years ago.
(cover of his greatest hits LP)
Clinton about the album: “Maggot Brain was going places that
Black groups hadn’t gone, into questions about whether America
was still on the right path or whether the promise of the late ’60s
had completely evaporated.”
Pitchfork: “For a group rumored to record while zonked out of their minds,
Funkadelic really held it together on Maggot Brain. They may not have been
as tight as James Brown’s backing band the J.B.’s, but Funkadelic wheeled out
the sort of soulful funk-rock that could fuel world-class parties.”
Singles.
– CAN YOU GET TO THAT –
– YOU AND YOUR FOLKS, ME AND MY FOLKS –
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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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Alive and kicking…
We’re All Web Junkies – Here’s PUBLIC ENEMY With Desert Clip For Single ‘GRID’
Clips that catch your eyes…
15 December 2020
With this year’s What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? album, monumental rap rebels PUBLIC ENEMY realized one of their most poignant records in their extensive career.
One of the highlight tracks is GRID. A rant about the whole world being Internet-addicted, featuring their famous wordsmith pals Cypress Hill and funkadelic hero George Clinton . Last October they shared a cool, animated clip (see below) for the roaring ripper.
Communication breakdown it’s a take down
Are you awake now or consumed by a fake clown?
World Wide Web keep the spiders fed
Looking at my feed, trolls everywhere but knowledge supersedes
Yesterday PE dropped another clip for GRID, filmed
with their mates in the desert. Hot stuff, indeed!
Forget the web and shake your hips, folks!
What y’all gonna do?
Uncle Jam’s Army’s in, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill
Let’s do this
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah…
The animated video clip…
The album…
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PUBLIC ENEMY: Facebook