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Funkadelic was a famous funk band, most prominent during the 1970s. Funkadelic was originally the backing band for the Doo Wop group, The Parliaments . The band was added in 1964 , primarily for tours, and consisted of Frankie Boyce , Richard Boyce and Langston Booth . They enlisted in the army in 1966 , and George Clinton (the leader of The Parliaments) recruited Billy Bass Nelson and Eddie Hazel in 1967 , then also adding Tawl Ross and Tiki Fulwood . Due to legal difficulties between Clinton and Revilot , The Parliaments' label, the name was abandoned in favor of Funkadelic, which consisted of the same group of people (that is, both the former Parliaments and their back-up band, now both combined in the name "Funkadelic"). The group signed to Westbound in 1968 . The group's self-titled debut album, '' Funkadelic '', was released in 1970 . The credits listed Organ ist Mickey Atkins plus Clinton, Fulwood, Hazel, Nelson and Ross, though the actual recording also included several uncredited sessionmen then employed by Motown , as well as Ray Monette (of Rare Earth ) and Bernie Worrell . Bernie Worrell was officially credited starting with Funkadelic's second album, 1970 's '' Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow '', thus beginning a long collaboration between Worrell and Clinton (who had been friends for quite a while). Worrell would go on to produce many Parliament and Funkadelic albums, as well as play Keyboard on albums by other Members Of P Funk . After the release of '' Maggot Brain '' in 1971 , Bootsy and Catfish Collins joined the group. The group would go on to become major contributors to the P-Funk sound. In 1972 , this new line-up released '' America Eats Its Young '', but many members left the group after that, due to internal squabbles, plus Hazel spent a year in jail for drug possession and assault, Tawl Ross experiencing either a bad LSD trip and/or a Speed overdose, while Billy Bass quit due to financial concerns. Michael Hampton , a seventeen-year-old Guitar prodigy, replaced Hazel. 1975 brought Funkadelic to Warner Brothers , and saw the release of '' Hardcore Jollies '' in 1976 . The same year, Westbound released a compilation of archived tracks titled '' Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic '', which did significantly better than ''Hardcore Jollies'' and included " Undisco Kidd ", an R&B Top 30 single. In 1977 , Westbound capitalized on the success of ''Tales of Kidd Funkadelic'' by releasing ''The Best of the Early Years''. Funkadelic recorded and released its Magnum Opus , '' One Nation Under A Groove '' in 1978 . The titular track spent six weeks at #1 on the R&B charts, while Parliament was enjoying success with " Flash Light " and " Aqua Boogie ." As the 1980s wore on, with legal difficulties arising from the multiple names used by multiple groups, as well as a shakeup among Parliament's record label, Parliament and Funkadelic disintegrated. George Clinton recorded several solo albums (sometimes under the name George Clinton & The P.Funk All-Stars ). Filmmaker Yvonne Smith of in 2005. DISCOGRAPHY (Greatest Hits and Compilations appear in bold) EXTERNAL LINKS
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