“Calvin was part of an era where people were protesting through their music with songs like Funkadelic’s ‘Can You Get to That,’” Armen Boladian, owner of Westbound Records, Funkadelic’s label from the late Sixties through the mid-Seventies, tells Rolling Stone. “Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother,” Clinton wrote on Facebook. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside many other members of Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997. the Placebo Syndrome and Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain and Cosmic Slop. During his tenure with P-Funk, he contributed to Parliament’s classic Mothership Connection and Funkentelechy vs. He continued to be a member of the group through its various permutations, from R&B to acid-rock to funk, through 1977 when he left over disputes over finances and management. Simon joined George Clinton’s doo-wop group the Parliaments in the late Fifties along with singers Fuzzy Haskins and Grady Thomas. Woodstock Impresario Michael Lang Dead at 77 Robert Durst, Convicted Murderer and Subject of 'The Jinx,' Dead at 78īob Saget, Wholesome 'Full House' Star and Brilliantly Filthy Comic, Dead at 65 Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic.” A cause of death was not immediately available. “A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. “We lost another original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” he wrote. He was 79.įormer P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins announced Simon’s death on Instagram. Calvin-simon-parliament - Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/APĬalvin Simon, a founding member of Parliament- Funkadelic, died on Thursday.
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