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Parliament — Give Up The Funk

Name: Give Up The Funk
Description: George Clinton built Mothership Connection as a Black science fiction album before that was a recognizable genre. Parliament's touring show involved a working spaceship lowered onto the stage with a smoke machine. The funk was metaphysical — Clinton was preaching that dancing was liberation, that getting loose was political. A concept so specific and so weird that it worked entirely.

Mothership Connection · 1975

Label: Casablanca · Genre: Funk / P-Funk · Country: USA · From: Detroit, MI, North America

George Clinton built Mothership Connection as a Black science fiction album before that was a recognizable genre. Parliament's touring show involved a working spaceship lowered onto the stage with a smoke machine. The funk was metaphysical — Clinton was preaching that dancing was liberation, that getting loose was political. A concept so specific and so weird that it worked entirely.

Did you know: The spaceship that lowered onto Parliament's stage cost more than some small record labels' entire budgets. Clinton financed it himself. The P-Funk Earthtour in 1976 grossed more per show than the Rolling Stones.

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