From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the ...

Throughout the 1970s, the midwest would prove to be a hotbed for great funk music, with the state of Ohio alone delivering artists like Catfish and Bootsy Collins, the Dazz Band, Zapp and The Ohio ...

Clinton began his music career as a teen when he formed The Parliaments. In the early '70s, he put together Funkadelic, whose Mothership Connection album dropped in 1975. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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 ...