With his multi-coloured dreadlocks and his spaced-out, psychedelic jams, George
Clinton stands alongside Sly Stone and James Brown as one of the godfathers of
funk and an eccentric pioneer who turned 1960s R&B into acid-tinged soul
shakedowns. Originally a songwriter for Motown Records, his bands Parliament and
Funkadelic lit up the 1970s with their flamboyant funk rock, before he turned
solo in 1982 and had hits with Loopzilla, Atomic Dog and Do Fries Go With That
Shake? The psychedelic funk boogies continued on Computer Games (1982) and R&B
Skeletons In The Closet (1986) before...