The Mothership spaceship, as a symbol, played an integral role in Parliament’s 1975 platinum-selling album, Mothership Connection, which found Clinton and crew partying in outer space, in a fantasy that excited the group’s core enthusiasts and attracted a larger audience – then overwhelmingly young and black. The most common narrative told about the Parliament-Funkadelic legacy is generally concerned with the Mothership. But the empire’s triumphant rebirth, under the span of just one year, and thanks in part to the “story of a famous dog,” would be the most fascinating strike back of all.
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When you get to that stage, there’s nothing you can do short of a freak situation.” While not quite planned, P-Funk’s swift ascent in popularity was followed by a series of setbacks at the start of the 1980s, which almost threatened to topple what Clinton’s funk army had built in the previous decade. But like with anything, there’s a planned obsolescence that comes around. The story of P-Funk is a mesmerizing, dizzying and miraculous testament of longevity, marked by rebirths or, as Clinton often described, periods of “planned obsolescence.” He told the Los Angeles Times in 1989, “We were hot as fire. He plans to remain involved, in the studio and on the sidelines, continuing to direct the super-group that he founded and worked hard to keep alive. At 77 years old, Clinton is not ending his work as an artist, producer, songwriter, conceptualist and overall referee he just oversaw the recent releases of new albums by Parliament ( Medicaid Fraud Dogg, 2018 – the first Parliament release since 1980) and Funkadelic ( First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate, 2014). In 2018, Parliament-Funkadelic leader and pioneer George Clinton announced that he would retire from touring in 2019 – or whenever he decides – marking another major milestone in the history of the massive P-Funk empire which he has masterminded for some six decades.
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