Calvin Simon, best known for his work as a vocalist with George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, has died at the age of 79. "Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," Clinton wrote in a ...
Watergate had shaken the nation. Gerald Ford was completing the third year of what would have been Richard Nixon’s second presidential term, had he not resigned in disgrace. The Vietnam War was ...
One Nation Under a Groove is Funkadelic’s most successful album, and many consider it their best. But when George Clinton took the band on the road to promote the September 1978 release, he did it ...
The multi-talented musician was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997 Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and ...
CIRCA 1977: (L-R) Singers Calvin Simon, Fuzzy Haskins and Grady Thomas of the funk band Parliament-Funkadelic pose for a portrait in circa 1977. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Clarence ...
"Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon," George Clinton said in tribute. By Ashley Iasimone, Billboard Calvin Simon, who was a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and a Rock and ...
Haskins also featured prominently in Parliament, singing lead vocals for multiple songs on the Funkadelic offshoot’s 1970 debut Osmium, as well as appearing on 1974’s Up for the Down Stroke, 1975’s ...
"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 late Eddie Hazel, a mind-blowing lead guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic, would’ve turned he big 7-0 this month. He took the funk-metal baton from Jimi Hendrix and created his own unique swirl ...
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Calvin Simon, a singer and founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, died on Thursday. “We lost another Original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” former P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins wrote on Twitter ...