“What’s happening, man?” a spry-sounding George Clinton asks when he picks up the phone. The Parliament-Funkadelic mastermind is turning 78 in July, but says he still feels like he did when he was just starting out in the Fifties and Sixties.
Despite this, he’s announced that his upcoming run of shows, a trek he’s dubbed the One Nation Under a Groove Tour, will be his final outing. It’s something that’s been in the works for a long time, the latest step in a plan he mapped...
Despite this, he’s announced that his upcoming run of shows, a trek he’s dubbed the One Nation Under a Groove Tour, will be his final outing. It’s something that’s been in the works for a long time, the latest step in a plan he mapped...
- 2/6/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Kendrick Lamar is very likely going to win some Grammys this year. That's a good thing, because Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly deserves every piece of praise it earned last year. It's a rich, challenging work that marries jazz, hip-hop and funk to Lamar's dense, knotty and socially conscious rhymes. Any wins for Lamar and Butterfly are net gains for music. At least one of those wins, however, would also be a win for George Clinton, founding member of Parliament, Funkadelic and one of the chief architects of funk music and by extension, hip-hop. Clinton is nominated as part of...
- 2/11/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Grant Morrison has collected his MBE. The acclaimed comics writer was given the award by Prince Charles. "He asked me about comics, and said he used to like reading the Eagle in the 1950s," Morrison told The Irvine Herald. "I would like to think the award is for the work I've been doing in America - it's mostly British people who have changed the complexion of American comics, which has influenced the movies and TV, and expanded the sphere of British imagination." He posted an image of himself wearing his medal on Twitter. His late father Walter Morrison also received an MBE in (more)...
- 10/26/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
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