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Parliament (band), the Glossary

Parliament was an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as a flagship act of his P-Funk collective.^[1]

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1968 establishments in New Jersey
1980 disestablishments in New Jersey
2018 disestablishments in New Jersey
African-American rock musical groups
American funk rock musical groups
Casablanca Records artists
Musical groups reestablished in 1974
Musical groups reestablished in 2018
P-Funk groups
Psychedelic soul music groups

Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)

"Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" is a song by funk band Parliament.

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Bernie Worrell

George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billy Bass Nelson

William "Billy Bass" Nelson (born January 28, 1951) is an American musician, who was the original bassist for Funkadelic.

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Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

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Calvin Simon

Calvin Eugene Simon (May 22, 1942 – January 6, 2022) was an American singer who was a member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic.

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Casablanca Records

Casablanca Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Republic Records.

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Chocolate City (album)

Chocolate City is the third album by the funk band Parliament, released in 1975.

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Colin Larkin

Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.

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Cordell Mosson

Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (born Cardell Mosson; October 16, 1952 – April 18, 2013) was an American bassist who was a member of Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Dawn Silva

Dawn Silva is an American funk vocalist of Epic Proportions.

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Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings (also simply known as Def Jam) is an American multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

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Eddie Hazel

Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Flash Light (song)

"Flash Light" is a song by funk band Parliament, written by George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, and Bootsy Collins and released in January 28, 1978, on the album Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome.

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Fred Wesley

Fred Wesley (born July 4, 1943) is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s, and Parliament-Funkadelic in the second half of the 1970s.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Funkadelic

Funkadelic was an American funk rock band formed in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968 and active until 1982. Parliament (band) and Funkadelic are 1968 establishments in New Jersey, African-American rock musical groups, American funk musical groups, American funk rock musical groups, musical groups established in 1968 and p-Funk groups.

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Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

Funkentelechy vs.

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Fuzzy Haskins

Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins (June 8, 1941 – March 16, 2023) was an American singer.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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Garry Shider

Garry Marshall Shider (July 24, 1953 – June 16, 2010) was an American musician and guitarist.

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George Clinton (funk musician)

George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and bandleader.

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Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)

"Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" is a funk song by Parliament.

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Glenn Goins

Glenn Lamonte Goins (January 2, 1954 – July 29, 1978), also known as Glen Goins, was a singer and guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic in the mid-1970s.

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Gloryhallastoopid

Gloryhallastoopid (Or Pin the Tale on the Funky) is the eighth album by the American funk band Parliament.

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Grady Thomas

Grady Thomas (born January 5, 1941, in Newark, New Jersey, United States) is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Invictus Records

Invictus Records was an American record label based in Detroit, Michigan.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.

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Jeanette Washington

Jeanette Washington is a funk vocalist best known as a member of the band Parliament.

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Jerome Brailey

Jerome Eugene "Bigfoot" Brailey (born August 20, 1950) is an American drummer, best known for his work with P-Funk, which included the bands Parliament, Funkadelic, and numerous related projects.

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List of P-Funk members

Since the late 1950s, Parliament-Funkadelic and the associated P-Funk musical collective, often referred to as the "Funk Mob," have included a large number of musicians and singers.

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Lynn Mabry

Lynn Mabry (born March 21, 1958) is an American singer.

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Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s and Prince in the 2000s.

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Mallia Franklin

Rosalind Mallia Franklin (March 1, 1952 – February 5, 2010), also known as The Queen Of Funk, was a vocalist of the American funk band Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Medicaid Fraud Dogg

Medicaid Fraud Dogg is the tenth and final studio album by American band Parliament, led by George Clinton.

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Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007), nicknamed Dr.

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Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton (born November 15, 1956) is an American funk/rock guitarist.

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Mothership Connection

Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975 on Casablanca Records.

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Motor Booty Affair

Motor Booty Affair is the seventh album by funk band Parliament, released in 1978.

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Muruga Booker

Steven Bookvich known as Muruga Booker (born December 27, 1942) is an American drummer, composer, inventor, artist, recording artist, and an autonomous Eastern Orthodox priest.

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Osmium (album)

Osmium is the debut album of American funk band Parliament, led by George Clinton.

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P-Funk mythology

The P-Funk mythology is a group of recurring characters, themes, and ideas primarily contained in the output of George Clinton's bands Parliament and Funkadelic.

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Parliament discography

Discography of Parliament, influential George Clinton-led funk group.

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Parliament-Funkadelic

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s. Parliament (band) and Parliament-Funkadelic are African-American rock musical groups, American funk musical groups, American funk rock musical groups and p-Funk groups.

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Pee Wee Ellis

Alfred James Rogers (April 21, 1941 – September 23, 2021), known as Pee Wee Ellis due to his diminutive stature, was an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Plainfield, New Jersey

Plainfield is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Prakash John

Prakash John is a Canadian rock and rhythm & blues bassist.

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Psychedelic soul

Psychedelic soul (originally called black rock or conflated with psychedelic funk) is a form of soul music which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s.

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Randy Brecker

Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer.

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Ray Davis (musician)

Raymond Davis (March 29, 1940 – July 5, 2005) was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, and subsequently the bands Parliament, and Funkadelic, collectively known as P-Funk.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rob Bowman (music writer)

Rob Bowman (born 21 June 1956) is a Canadian Grammy Award-winning professor of ethnomusicology and a music writer.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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