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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 .
Jul 22, 2021 · George Clinton, the Godfather of Funk, is 80 years old today. It's impossible to overstate the impact Clinton has had on modern music. His 1970s bands Parliament and Funkadelic made some of the ...
Jul 22, 2021 · At Age 80, George Clinton Announces His Un-Retirement – and a Verzuz Episode. George Clinton started a farewell tour with P-Funk in 2019, but he's changed his mind. By Brian Hiatt.
- Brian Hiatt
Jul 2, 2018 · In the mid-seventies, George Clinton and his band Funkadelic were working on a new song, “Get Off Your Ass and Jam,” at a studio in Los Angeles. At the time, Funkadelic was basically a...
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Oct 18, 2023 · After a decades-long career in music, Parliament-Funkadelic's George Clinton is fighting for his legacy. The influential bandleader joins Q’s Tom Power to reflect on his remarkable career....
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Jun 7, 2024 · George Clinton (born July 22, 1941, Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.) is a highly influential funk music singer, songwriter, and musician who organized and produced Parliament-Funkadelic, a genre-bending theatrical collective of performers who defined funk music in the 1970s.