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George Clinton

Member of: Funkadelic

Influenced by: Frank Zappa, James Brown, Meech Wells, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart, Jimi Hendrix, Sun Ra

Genre: R & B

Biography: The mastermind of the Parliament/Funkadelic collective during the 1970s, George Clinton broke up both bands by 1981 and ...

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Nov 14 2007 12:00PM by Henry Diltz

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 Spinner.com: Previous | NextRome, N.Y., 1999: This is Woodstock '99, and George Clinton, the godfather of funk, is a guy that I've shot a number of times. One of them he had a black and yellow plaid suit on, and the second one he wore his hair in hundreds of...Read more

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