The first in-depth
biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and
innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history
yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the
great black music pioneers and the era which spawned him. Clinton
stands alongside James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone as one of
the most influential black artists of all time who, along with his
vast P-Funk army took black funk into the US charts and sold out
stadiums by the mid 1970s with his mind-blowing shows and legendary
Mothership extravaganzas. The book contains first hand interview
material with Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Jerome Bigfoot Brailey, Junie
Morrison, Bobby Gillespie, Afrika Bambaataa, Jalal Nuriddin (Last
Poets), Juan Atkins, John Sinclair, Rob Tyner (MC5), Ed Sanders (The
Fugs), Chip Monck ("The Voice of Woodstock") plus other P-Funk
associates and friends. The book presents an insiders' view of the
rise of Parliament and Funkadelic from the doowop era and LSD-crazed
early shows through to P-Funk s huge rise, the era of the Mothership
and beyond.