A hugely flamboyant figure with multi-coloured hair and an eccentric persona,
George Clinton helped create some of the most infectious, psychedelic funk of
the 1970s. Raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, he moved to Detroit to become a
staff songwriter for Motown in the mid-1960s, before finding success with his
doo-wop group The Parliaments and their hit single (I Wanna) Testify. When a
legal wrangle with Revilot Records threatened the future of the group in 1969,
Clinton took off with his backing band and adopted the name Funkadelic. However,
the legal issues were soon resolved an...