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Calvin Simon, best known for his work as a vocalist with George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, has died at the age of 79. "Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," Clinton wrote in a ...

"Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," George Clinton said in tribute. By Ashley Iasimone, Billboard Calvin Simon, who was a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and a Rock and ...

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins Parliament-Funkadelic's former vocalist Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins has died. He was 81. "We are saddened to announce the passing of an original ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act Parliament-Funkadelic started in a Plainfield barbership George Clinton, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Fuzzy Haskins, and Ray Davis were original members Several ...

Sadly, funk greats Parliament-Funkadelic have lost another one of their beloved. Today (June 24), keyboard legend Bernie Worrell died following a battle with lung cancer. He was 72. His family broke ...

Calvin Simon, whose voice gave harmony to the sound of Parliament-Funkadelic and landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away Jan. 6 in San Antonio, Fla., said his assistant Bobbi Vickers ...

"Okay, enough is enough," long-time Parliament-Funkadelic member Bootsy Collins said today. "Somebody tell me this ain't so. In case it is, we have lost another frequency in the harmonic chain of ...

George Clinton is retiring from live performance. He just can’t say when or where that final show might be. Or even why he’d want to walk away from the fun he’s had leading the latest edition of ...

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 ...

In 1970, George Clinton and his merry pranksters of P-Funk released three albums that, collectively, worked to rewrite the possibilities of soul, funk and rock as integrated forces across the ...