Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A founding member of groundbreaking New Jersey funk rock band Parliament-Funkadelic has died. William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the ...

Billy Bass Nelson, who played with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic for years, has died at 75, the band has announced.

Bernie Worrell, the man behind the keyboard and one of the founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Friday at the age of 72 after a battle with lung cancer. Suggested Reading This Baby Looks ...

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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 ...

Detroit madman and doo-wop veteran George Clinton spent the 1970s running two of the wildest bands in the galaxy: Funkadelic for guitar-crazed rock, Parliament for dance-floor boogie. Only a genius ...

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 ...

The death of Nelson, who coined the term “Funkadelic,” was announced on the Facebook page of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. “We have now received official confirmation,” the post stated.