Book about 1975 - Make My Funk the P-Funk

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Danny is releasing a new P-Funk book in October! It’s focusing on 1975. Can’t wait to read it! It’s already possible to pre-order it from Bloomsbury.

Make My Funk the P-Funk
Parliament-Funkadelic’s Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection

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Here’s the description of the book on the publishers site:

P-Funk keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian brings to life the recording and musical activity of Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975, an epoch-making year marked by the release of three seminal albums: Chocolate City, Let’s Take It to the Stage, and Mothership Connection. By the end of it, George Clinton and P-Funk were catapulted into superstardom, becoming a massive platinum success with multiple hit singles.

Incorporating exclusive insights and memories from significant P-Funk members including Clinton himself, the book investigates how P-Funk’s sound evolved throughout the year and eventually crystallized into the unique sound most associated with the group. Bedrosian pulls back the curtain on these three albums and their individual tracks, revealing important details of production styles, artistic processes, musical influences, themes, historical importance, and so much more. He also dives into major P-Funk lore and political and social influences during this time, including Clinton’s Afrofuturism.

At the beginning of 1975, Chocolate City-as a “tribute to Washington D.C.”-saw George Clinton putting Black people in the White House. By the end of the year, Mothership Connection-much more a movement than an album-saw him launching Black people in space, solidifying the band’s music as its own subgenre and laying down the foundation for many different types of popular music, including hip-hop.

And the chapters.

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter One - Overview of 1975
Chapter Two - The Prior 20 Years of P-Funk History
Chapter Three - Chocolate City by Parliament
Chapter Four - Let’s Take It to the Stage by Funkadelic
Chapter Five - Mothership Connection by Parliament
Chapter Six - P-Funk’s Development and Influence from 1975 Onward

Epilogue
Appendix A: The Players
Appendix B: Select Samples and Interpolations List
Select Sources
Index

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Go 'head, @DannyBedrosian :sign_of_the_horns:t4::sign_of_the_horns:t4:

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When did you have the time to write this, Danny? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Keep 'em coming!

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Looking forward to this, hopefully there’ll be a hard copy available in the UK. Bloomsbury UK only have ebook/PDF last time I checked.

I’m reading George Clinton’s autobiography at the moment. Normally, when I read a biog/autobiog, I listen along chronologically. but there are just so many albums in such a short space of time, it’s not really possible! All good though.

It’s made me want to get Danny’s first P-Funk book though.

PS - anyone got any good recommendations for UK-based CD shops that are good for funk / P-Funk?

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Yeah I did that with George’s book. :grinning_face:

Got as far as Electric Spanking with Danny’s. Pretty damn disciplined for me.

Whatever I stick on though, i’ll take a peek at the players first.

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It’s more like meteoric rise in 1976. Mothership Connection was so ahead of its time it didn’t catch on until around March 1976. Disco was the new hot thing and radio stations were playing that. Radio stations didn’t play P. Funk until Tear the Roof Off became a hit

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