Parliament (band)
The group Parliament, one of the icons of the P-Funk, was founded in 1968 by George Clinton. The band was second in addition to the band Funkadelic Clinton's big project and Clinton sat for the most part on the same musicians - duplicate names leadership was mainly due to contractual reasons related to his record company.
After recording their first single Testify, which was successful to a limited extent, the group had problems with their band name, so that George Clinton was forced to make for the time being under the name Funkadelic on. This was certainly also the reason why the album Funkadelic was released in 1969, a year before the first Parliament album from 1970 entitled osmium. Clinton and his associates, including already in the early years, such famous names like Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, working in the following years, especially under the name Funkadelic on. In 1974 appeared Up for the Down Stroke Parliaments second album, which was a first P-Funk album and reached the number 10 in the U.S. R & B charts. 1975 the third album with Chocolate City.
Clinton was able to amplify the band of Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley in the meantime. In the same year, 1975, appeared with Mothership Connection the first of three consecutive albums by legendary Parliament. It reached the top 13 of the pop charts and platinum status. Only half a year later appeared, in 1976, The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, an equally energetic masterpiece of the P-Funk era, albeit not quite as commercially successful as its predecessor. Although already looming 1977 internal squabbles, was this year with Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome Parliament published the most successful album. The title Flashlight was three weeks number one on the U.S. R & B charts. P. Funk Earth Tour - In the same year the album Live was released.
1978 Motor Booty Affair followed and 1979 Gloryhallastoopid ( Or Pin the Tale on the Funky ). The official last album of Parliament was Trombipulation and appeared in 1980. In the following time again gave contractual difficulties and a certain creative exhaustion decisive for Clinton, names continue to work among others. So 1982 computer games appeared as a solo album. George Clinton's band was renamed the mid- 1980s in P-Funk Allstars. One of the best shots of the band heard the album Live at the Beverly Theatre in Hollywood from 1990 with drummer Dennis Chambers.