Parliament-Funkadelic's founding bassist Billy Bass Nelson has died. He was 75. News of Nelson's death was revealed in a statement on the official Facebook page for George Clinton and ...

Name Michael Hampton a.k.a. Kidd Funkadelic Best known for Joining Parliament Funkadelic at age 17, and over the past 50 years playing more than 5,000 shows in 400 cities across six continents with ...

The funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic is often described as a wild, brilliant and world-changing musical collective. But when the group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, none ...

No cause of death was revealed. Billy Bass Nelson, the bassist and guitarist for the groups Parliament and Funkadelic, died Jan. 31, three days after celebrating his 75th birthday. The Facebook ...

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George Clinton owns the moniker “The Godfather of Funk,” but how did it all start for him and for the musicians who became the Parliament Funkadelic? Clinton and 15-member Parliament-Funkadelic were ...

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 ...

DETROIT (AP) — “I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes Funkadelic’s 1978 groove “Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!).” Now ...

Prior to the George Clinton-led Parliament-Funkadelic show at the MGM Northfield on Saturday night, I had a few moments to speak with Greg Boyer, the long-time trombone player with the band. “I had a ...

Billy Bass Nelson, the original bassist for what was once George Clinton's backing band Funkadelic, has died, the band confirmed on Facebook. He was 75. "We have now received official confirmation," a ...