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About George Clinton:

George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American musician, extensively considered single of the forefathers of funk. He was the design of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and beforehand 1980s, and was a alone funk artist as of 1981.

He was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. In Plainfield, he ran a barber salon, where he straightened tresses, and before long formed a doo wop assembly, inspired close Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, called The Parliaments. Despite initial commercial failures, The Parliaments finally establish good beneath the names Parliament and Funkadelic in the seventies (perceive also p-funk). This article focuses on Clinton's alone efforts after 1981.

Beginning in the ahead 1980's, Clinton recorded some nominal "on one's own" albums, although all of these records featured contributions from P-Funk's centre musicians. The first justification representing recording below his own designation was lawful difficulties, due to the complex copyright and trademark issues nearby the label "Parliament" (chiefly) and Polygram's buy of his former identification (as bit of Parliament), Casablanca Records. In 1982, Clinton signed to Capitol Records as a solo artist and as the P-Funk All-Stars, releasing Computer Games that identical year. "Loopzilla" hit the Top 20 R&B charts, followed beside "Atomic Dog," which reached #1 R&B, but peaked at #101 on the burst ocean-map. In the next four years, Clinton released three more studio albums (You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish, Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends and R&B Skeletons in the Closet) as satisfactorily as a living album, Mothership Connection (Live from the Summit, Houston, Texas) and charting three singles in the R&B Top 30, "Nubian Nut," "Last Dance," and "Do Fries Go with that Shake." This interval of Clinton's job was marred next to multiple licit problems (resulting in pecuniary difficulties) owed to complex queenship and copyright issues. In 1985 he was recruited close to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to make their album Freaky Styley, because the bandmembers were big fans of George Clinton and funk in common. Though Clinton's favour had waned alongside the mid 1980s, he adept something of a renaissance in the untimely 1990s, as numerous rappers cited him as an power and began sampling his songs. Alongside James Brown, George Clinton is considered to be lone of the most sampled musicians at all.

In 1989, Clinton released The Cinderella Theory on Paisley Park, Prince's pen identifier. This was followed by Hey Man… odour my Finger. Clinton then signed with Sony 550 and released T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership) in 1996, having reunited with a few elderly members of Parliament and Funkadelic.

In the 1990s, Clinton appeared in films such as Graffiti Bridge (1990), Good Burger (1997) and PCU (1994). Most recently he appeared as the speech of The Funktipus, the DJ of the Bounce FM place in the 2004 video amusement, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Rapper Dr. Dre sampled most of his beats to build his g-funk music age.

"You're Thinking Right" - the subject melody championing The Tracey Ullman Show, was written by Clinton.

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This is not the soundtrack composer George S. Clinton who did Mortal Kombat etc.