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{{creator|wppage=George Clinton (musician)}}
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{{quote|''There's a good time waiting for you, come on and let's get free!''|'''Funkadelic''', "Good To Your Earhole" }}
{{quote|''Make my funk the P-Funk, I wants to get funked up''
''I want the bomb, I want the P-Funk, I want my funk uncut.''|'''Parliament''', "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" }}
[[George Clinton]] is a famous and acclaimed [[Funk]] musician. If [[James Brown]] was the [[Trope Maker|pioneer]] of funk, George Clinton was the man who arguably [[Trope Codifier|fulfilled its potential]] as the driving force of Parliament-Funkadelic. He is known foremost for his conceptual vision, socially conscious lyrics and production skills. The bands themselves are famous for their excellent musicianship, fierce live performances and outlandish albums boasting satirical comic-book artwork, its most famous covers being the ones drawn by Pedro Bell and Overton Loyd. Besides being considered a member of funk's "holy trinity" (alongside [[James Brown]] and [[Sly And The Family Stone|Sly Stone]]), he's also the second or third most [[Sampling|sampled]] musician, depending on who's counting.
George Clinton was born in 1941 in Kannapolis, North Carolina and grew up in Plainfield, [[New Jersey]]. After some time in a barber salon, he became a staff songwriter for Motown, while fronting a small-time doo-wop group named The Parliaments, which had a hit in 1967 with "(I Wanna) Testify". But this band disintegrated, and Clinton instead formed Funkadelic, a band which played a combination of psychedelic rock and funk, influenced by other famous musicians such as [[Jimi Hendrix]], James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone.
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* '''Shirley Hayden''' - vocals
'''Funkadelic discography:'''
* 1970 - ''Funkadelic''
* 1970 - ''Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow''
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* 1981 - ''The Electric Spanking of War Babies''
'''Parliament discography:'''
* 1970 - ''Osmium''
* 1974 - ''Up for the Down Stroke''
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* 1980 - ''Trombipulation''
'''George Clinton solo discography:'''
* 1982 - ''Computer Games''
* 1983 - ''You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish''
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* 2008 - ''[[Cover Album|George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love]]''
* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: "March to the Witch's Castle" (Justified in the line, "Help him understand that when his loved one remarried, they were truly under the impression that he was dead and would never return").
* [[Careful with That Axe]]: A few times in "Bop Gun (Endangered Species)".
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* [[Title-Only Chorus]]
* [[Big Bad]]: Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Mr. Wiggles and the citizens of Atlantis.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Funkenstein.
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Star Child.
* [[Narcissist]]: Dr. Funkenstein, whose song gives us lines like, "Kiss me on my ego!" and "Let me hear it for me!".
* [[Punny Name]]: Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk (say it out loud).
* [[Redemption Quest]]: Sir Nose traces his ancestry.
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