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Brothas be, yo like George, ain't that funkin' kinda hard on you?

Traces the funk music legend's rise from a 1950s barbershop quartet to an influential multigenre artist, discussing his pivotal artistic and business achievements with "Parliament-Funkadelic.".

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Clinton, George, 1940- (Author), Greenman, Ben (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atria Books, 2014.
Edition:	First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Clinton, George, > 1940- Funk musicians > United States > Biography. Funkadelic (Musical group) Parliament (Musical group)
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Summary:	Traces the funk music legend's rise from a 1950s barbershop quartet to an influential multigenre artist, discussing his pivotal artistic and business achievements with "Parliament-Funkadelic.".
Physical Description:	x, 404 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes discography (pages 359-371) and index.
ISBN:	9781476751078 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1476751072 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781476751085 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1476751080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	George Clinton revolutionized R&B during the '70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-'60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sly Stone. The Parliament/Funkadelic machine ruled black music during the '70s, capturing more than forty R&B hit singles (including three at #1) and recording three platinum albums. Ben Greenman is a bestselling author who has written both fiction (most recently, The Slippage ) and nonfiction (most recently, the hip-hop memoir Mo' Meta Blues , cowritten with Questlove). He lives in Brooklyn and rarely leaves.