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 ...

Who needs pomp and circumstance when you can give up the funk, instead? The Mothership arrived in Rock Hill on Friday afternoon, as music icon George Clinton accepted an honorary doctorate degree from ...

Watergate had shaken the nation. Gerald Ford was completing the third year of what would have been Richard Nixon’s second presidential term, had he not resigned in disgrace. The Vietnam War was ...

George Clinton, attends the star ceremony honoring George "Dr. Funkenstein" Clinton with a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 19, 2024, in Hollywood, California. Plainfield's own George Clinton is ...

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 ...

Every kind of music translates to live performance in its own way. Classical music fosters introspection; the best performers lure each listener into him− or herself as the emotions become ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, Professor of Television Studies at Rowan University. If funk began with James Brown, it was George Clinton who was responsible for many of the innovations in ...

When you think of the Motown sound of the 1960s, you think of clean-cut acts like The Temptations, The Four Tops, and The Supremes. That all changed when George Clinton came along. It was Clinton, ...

Ahead of a special belated 80th-birthday show, George Clinton gave a gift of his own to his old school in Newark, New Jersey, — a ton of musical equipment. In turn, Avon Elementary officially renamed ...

Ain't no party like a P-Funk birthday party. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic brought lots of funk and smiles Friday, March 18, to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark in a show ...