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Parliament (Musical group)

LC control no.n 79116157
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Corporate name headingParliament (Musical group)
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See alsoFounder: Clinton, George, 1940-
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Member: Haskins, Fuzzy, 1941-2023
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Funkadelic (Musical group)
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Other standard no.000000010944655X
148850890
Q1892425
Beginning date1974
Ending date1980
Field of activityFunk (Music) Popular music
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Found inParliament live : P. Funk earth tour, c1977: t.p. (Parliament live)
Schwann 2, Aug. 1979 (Parliament)
All music guide WWW site, June 24, 2002 (George Clinton recorded the ensemble both as Parliament and Funkadelic)
The Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll, 2001 (under Clinton, George: in the 1950s Clinton founded a vocal group called the Parliaments; due to legal problems over the name, he and the group's singers began recording with their backup band as Funkadelic in 1968; Clinton recorded Parliament and Funkadelic separately after winning the lawsuit)
New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Parliament/Funkadelic; name by which the loose agglomeration of musicians led by George Clinton in the 1970s was commonly known; they formed the constantly changing membership of groups known as Parliament and Funkadelic)
Wikipedia, 12 March 2021: in an entry for Parliament (band) (Parliament was an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as part of his Parliament-Funkadelic collective; more commercial and less rock-oriented than its sister act Funkadelic, Parliament drew on science-fiction and outlandish performances in their work; the band scored a number of Top 10 hits, including the million-selling 1976 single "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)," and Top 40 albums such as Mothership Connection (1975))
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