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Signed with Westbound Records, they released several records starting in 1970 and gained a small following. The same year, Clinton decided to expand with an off-shoot group named ''Parliament'', which featured most of the musicians from Funkadelic, and originally covered much of the same musical ground before both groups moved away from psychedelic rock and became more funk-oriented. More spinoffs, including ''The Brides of Funkenstein'' followed. And later Bootsy started his own career with ''Bootsy's Rubber Band''.
 
The period of 1975-1979 is widely considered Parliament-Funkadelic's "classic period", when they released a string of concept albums full of bizarre spacey imagery and their own [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:P-Funk_mythologyFunk mythology|mythology]], which were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, backed by an elaborate stage show that rivaled [[Pink Floyd]]. The same period resulted in a stream of side-projects and more off-shoots, out of which only Bootsy's Rubber Band earned any comparable success or visibility.
 
The P-Funk collective began disintegrating at the start of the 1980s as a result of Clinton's drug problems and financial problems stemming from the two groups' unwieldy size. They were disbanded as a result of complicated label politics, and Clinton started a solo career, gaining a 1982 hit album in ''Computer Games'' and the #1 single "Atomic Dog". He has continued to tour and record since with many of the same musicians under the name "P-Funk All Stars", largely due to legal issues preventing him from using "Parliament" or "Funkadelic" after 1980. The "P-Funk All Stars" nowadays contain both old P-Funk standbys and new musicians.
 
Not to be confused with [[Bill Clinton]] (''[[The Onion]]'' ran quite a few stories during [[The Nineties]] that played on the similarity), [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_%28vice_president%29:George Clinton chr(28)vice presidentchr(29)|vice president George Clinton]], or the decidedly white and not-very-funky soundtrack composer [http://www.last.fm/music/George+S.+Clinton George S. Clinton].
 
Had an appearance [[As Himself]] in ''[[PCU]]''.
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* [[Echoing Acoustics]]
* [[Epic Rocking]]: "One Nation Under a Groove", "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?", "What Is Soul", "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow", "Maggot Brain", "Promentalshitbackwashenemapsychosis Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)", "Bop Gun (Endangered Species)", "Flash Light", "Aqua Boogie (Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)", "Deep" ...and that's just a few.
* [[Fake -Out Fade -Out]]: In "Bop Gun".
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "We love to fu{{spoiler|n}}k you, Funkenstein!" They use this play on words more than once.
* [[Gratuitous Panning]]
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