Billy Bass Nelson, who played with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic for years, has died at 75, the band has announced.

Founding Parliament–Funkadelic bassist Billy Bass died of unspecified causes Saturday night, three days after his 75th birthday. P-Funk bandleader George Clinton’s Facebook page had erroneously ...

Pedro Bell, whose wild, psychedelic album covers for Detroit cosmic funk band Funkadelic defined the influential group’s aesthetic, died Tuesday. He was 69. His death was confirmed by longtime ...

Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, the American vocalist who was an original member of the George Clinton-led groups Parliament and Funkadelic, has died at the age of 81. The news was confirmed over the ...

"Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," his former bandmate George Clinton wrote in a tribute on Facebook Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in ...

The multi-talented musician was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997 Jack Irvin has worked at PEOPLE since 2022. He covers daily music news and has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A founding member of groundbreaking New Jersey funk rock band Parliament-Funkadelic has died. William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act Parliament-Funkadelic started in a Plainfield barbership George Clinton, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Fuzzy Haskins, and Ray Davis were original members Several ...

Five years into its radically ingenious musical career, freak-maestro George Clinton’s influential funk rock collective Parliament-Funkadelic had released nine consecutive albums—six as Funkadelic, ...

Fifty years: a breath. A snap of the fingers. Or in the case of Funkadelic’s Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow—recorded in one day, with the whole band tripping on LSD—a single ageless ...