This is FRESH AIR. George Clinton is the leader of two groundbreaking funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. As the writer, producer and performer behind numerous hits, Clinton helped define the sound ...
George Clinton is planning to land the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership again in 2026. With the original stagecraft stage ...
At the beginning of 1975, Gerald Ford was president, the United States and Soviet Union were approaching a détente in the Space Race, and a wildly imaginative barber turned singer named George Clinton ...
The first time he listened to Parliament's classic album, Dobie Maxwell was hooked. He bought records, attended countless concerts and finally got to meet his hero, George Clinton, who plays tonight ...
*On this day in 1975, Parliament blasted “Mothership Connection” into the stratosphere, and the intergalactic-themed concept album boldly carried the liberation-through-funk banner where not even ...
‘Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism,’ a new exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California, is a multisensory ode to Black voices. In 1976, a sparkling silver spaceship landed on a stage in Houston to ...