# Books about P-Funk
**URL:** https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89
**Category:** Records/Books
**Tags:** book
**Created:** [October 2, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89 "2018-10-02T05:35:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/1 "2018-10-02T05:35:39Z")
I was thinking that it would be good to have a place with every p-funk book listed, so I put together the list below. I got the idea after I did the [post about posters](https://pfunkforums.com/t/concert-posters/37). I didn’t include books about funk in general, only P-Funk specific ones.
My favorites are Aron & Marcel’s book, #1 Bimini Road, the oral history, the Wax poetics issue and Clinton’s own biography. Yeah that’s almost all of them 😁 . Amazing books 🤩 .
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/2 "2018-10-02T05:36:18Z")
## Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?
Year: 2014
Author/Editor: George Clinton, Ben Greenman
[https://www.amazon.com/Brothas-Like-George-Funkin-Kinda/dp/1476751080](https://www.amazon.com/Brothas-Like-George-Funkin-Kinda/dp/1476751080)
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## George Clinton and P-Funk
Year: 2013
Author/Editor: Arno Konings, Marcel Visser
[https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Clinton-P-Funk/dp/9045315483](https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Clinton-P-Funk/dp/9045315483)
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## #1 Bimini Road
Year: 1996
Author/Editor: Diem Jones
[https://www.amazon.com/1-Bimini-Road-Diem-Jones/dp/0965376400](https://www.amazon.com/1-Bimini-Road-Diem-Jones/dp/0965376400)
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## George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (For the Record)
Year: 1998
Author/Editor: David Mills, Larry Alexander, Thomas Stanley, Aris Wilson, Dave Marsh
[https://www.amazon.com/George-Clinton-P-Funk-History-Record/dp/0380793784](https://www.amazon.com/George-Clinton-P-Funk-History-Record/dp/0380793784)
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## George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey Of The P-Funk Empire
Year: 2014
Author/Editor: Kris Needs
[https://www.amazon.com/George-Clinton-Cosmic-Odyssey-P-Funk/dp/178305154X](https://www.amazon.com/George-Clinton-Cosmic-Odyssey-P-Funk/dp/178305154X)
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## Wax Poetics - Issue 18
_Ok this is a magazine and not a book 😁 . But definitely a must-have._
Year: 2006
[https://www.amazon.com/poetics-Issue-parliament-funkadelic-paperback-reprint/dp/1734851104](https://www.amazon.com/poetics-Issue-parliament-funkadelic-paperback-reprint/dp/1734851104)
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## Multifarious Funk: The Evolution and Biography of George Clinton and The Parliament-Funkadelic Empire
Year: 2017
Author/Editor: Sabrina Marie, Tony Rose
[https://www.amazon.com/Multifarious-Funk-Evolution-Parliament-Funkadelic-Funkentelechy/dp/1937269655](https://www.amazon.com/Multifarious-Funk-Evolution-Parliament-Funkadelic-Funkentelechy/dp/1937269655)
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## The Best of George Clinton (Masters of Funk Series)
_This is a songbook for piano/vocal/guitar._
Year: 1998
Author/Editor: Dave Edwards
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/726515.The\_Best\_of\_George\_Clinton](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/726515.The_Best_of_George_Clinton)
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## George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic) Changed Our Lives
Year: 2021
Author/Editor: Miguel A. Sutil, Marcelo Chaparro
[enlacefunk.bandcamp.com](https://enlacefunk.bandcamp.com/merch/libro-book-cd-george-clinton-parliament-funkadelic-cambi-nuestras-vidas-changed-our-lives-regalo-cd-bonus-cd-enlace-p-funk)
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## Bootsy Collins Legendary Licks
_This is a book with bass instructions._
Year: 2011
Author/Editor: Karl Kaminski
[https://www.amazon.com/Bootsy-Collins-Legendary-Licks-Inside/dp/1603781501](https://www.amazon.com/Bootsy-Collins-Legendary-Licks-Inside/dp/1603781501)
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## The Funk Queen: An Autobiography
Year: 2023
Author/Editor: Dawn Silva
[https://www.dawnsilva.com/the-book](https://www.dawnsilva.com/the-book)
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## The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023
Year: 2023
Author/Editor: Daniel Bedrosian
[https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/authorized-pfunk-song-reference-9781538183427](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/authorized-pfunk-song-reference-9781538183427)
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## Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
Year: 2025
Author/Editor: Seth Neblett
[https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332672](https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332672)
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## Make My Funk the P-Funk: Parliament-Funkadelic’s Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection
Year: 2025
Author/Editor: Daniel Bedrosian
[https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/make-my-funk-the-pfunk-9798881800642](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/make-my-funk-the-pfunk-9798881800642)
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/3 "2018-10-02T05:37:13Z")
These books never got released (not yet anyways).
## Where’d You Get That Funk From?
Year: 2006-2008
Author/Editor: Lloyd Bradley
[https://www.bookdepository.com/Whered-You-Get-That-Funk-From-Lloyd-Bradley/9781841955919](https://www.bookdepository.com/Whered-You-Get-That-Funk-From-Lloyd-Bradley/9781841955919)
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## Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain (33 1/3)
Year: 2009-2016
Author/Editor: Matt Rogers
[https://www.amazon.com/Funkadelics-Maggot-Brain-Matt-Rogers/dp/0826429041](https://www.amazon.com/Funkadelics-Maggot-Brain-Matt-Rogers/dp/0826429041)
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/4 "2018-10-15T21:40:15Z")
Here are books in other languages than English. There’s also the book _George Clinton Changed Our Lives_ above that’s written in both Spanish and English.
## P-Funk
Year: 2011
Author/Editor: Yoriko Kawachi
Language: Japanese
[https://www.amazon.co.uk/P-FUNK-Yoriko-Kawachi/dp/4309272460](https://www.amazon.co.uk/P-FUNK-Yoriko-Kawachi/dp/4309272460)
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## P-Funk - L’odyssée de George Clinton
Year: 2023
Author/Editor: Real Muzul
Language: French
[https://www.fnac.com/a18076396/Real-Muzul-P-is-the-funk-L-odyssee-de-George-Clinton](https://www.fnac.com/a18076396/Real-Muzul-P-is-the-funk-L-odyssee-de-George-Clinton)
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## The Funk Universe of P-Funk: A Guide Through Records and History
Year: 2025
Author/Editor: Yoriko Kawachi
Language: Japanese
[https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4910511997](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4910511997)
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For completeness, here are also two translations of Clinton’s memoir.
## ファンクはつらいよ
Year: 2016
Translator: Motoko Oshino
Language: Japanese
[https://www.amazon.co.jp/George-Clinton-Self-Audition-Journey-Mothership/dp/4907583508](https://www.amazon.co.jp/George-Clinton-Self-Audition-Journey-Mothership/dp/4907583508)
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## La mia vita funkadelica
Year: 2016
Translator: Michele Piumini
Language: Italian
[https://www.amazon.it/mia-vita-funkadelica-George-Clinton/dp/886998026X](https://www.amazon.it/mia-vita-funkadelica-George-Clinton/dp/886998026X)
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### Author:  [@MrSuperNobody](https://pfunkforums.com/u/MrSuperNobody)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/5 "2019-04-29T05:55:04Z")
There was a series of mini paperbacks that came out about 15 years ago that were sold in HMV (uk) records, I read the ones about Sly & The Family Stone, Steely Dan And P-Funk they were really good lots of new interviews and quite a bit of juicy gossip. Sorry I don’t remember the titles as I read my friends copies.
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### Author:  [@OooBooBeeDoop](https://pfunkforums.com/u/OooBooBeeDoop)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/6 "2019-05-26T13:12:49Z")
Can anyone confirm if the Lloyd Bradley book ever actually appeared before the public? This book is a total mystery to me. It was one of the first books to be advertised yet I’ve never actually seen a copy of it materialized.
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### Author:  [@OooBooBeeDoop](https://pfunkforums.com/u/OooBooBeeDoop)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/7 "2019-05-26T13:15:04Z")
The late, great David Mills put together these Oral Histories collection yes I enjoyed them too.
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/8 "2019-05-26T22:51:01Z")
I asked Lloyd last year and he said he was looking to complete it in 2019. Hopefully we’ll see it published soon.
Welcome to the forum @OooBooBeeDoop!
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### Author:  [@OooBooBeeDoop](https://pfunkforums.com/u/OooBooBeeDoop)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2019, 6:15am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/9 "2019-05-27T06:15:51Z")
Great. I ran outta gas waiting for the “She-Funk” book, that was promised 20 some years ago lol.
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### Author:  [@Findagroov](https://pfunkforums.com/u/Findagroov)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/10 "2019-06-05T17:15:44Z")
**Findagroov™ Reviews The Songs Of… George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic**
Year: 2019
Author/Editor: Tony Madison II
[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R8HY8BF/](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R8HY8BF/)
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/11 "2019-06-07T07:07:56Z")
Wow, thanks for this! So far I only glanced through the _unofficial discography_ category. Looking good!
Would love to have a physical copy as well 😉
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### Author:  [@Findagroov](https://pfunkforums.com/u/Findagroov)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/12 "2019-06-07T14:28:58Z")
Thanks for checking it out, silentboatman - glad you like it 😃. At this time, I only have it on Kindle - just getting my feet wet as an author. Hopefully, I will get to do the paperback route the next time.
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/13 "2019-08-12T15:23:24Z")
3 posts were split to a new topic: [Take Funk To Heaven bootleg](https://pfunkforums.com/t/take-funk-to-heaven-bootleg/219)
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### Author:  [@OooBooBeeDoop](https://pfunkforums.com/u/OooBooBeeDoop)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/14 "2019-09-12T22:40:22Z")
There’s a book about the creations of Larry Legaspi out. He outfitted The Mob. He made those dog shoes The Dr had in the early 80s. I’m not sure how many P pics are in there but there’s bound to be something. There is some Labelle & KISS pics in it.
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/15 "2019-09-13T08:31:26Z")
That’s interesting! Is it [this book](https://www.amazon.com/Legaspi-Larry-70s-Future-Fashion/dp/0847867064) perhaps?
There are several books with chapters (or part of) dedicated to the p, maybe we should make another topic about those books (since this topic was meant more for books purely about pfunk).
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### Author:  [@OooBooBeeDoop](https://pfunkforums.com/u/OooBooBeeDoop)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/16 "2019-09-14T01:50:46Z")
Yes that’s it. I put it on hold at the local library.
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### Author:  [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/17 "2019-10-20T23:27:26Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [George Clinton and P-Funk - The book](https://pfunkforums.com/t/george-clinton-and-p-funk-the-book/276)
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### Author:  [@Arno\_Konings](https://pfunkforums.com/u/Arno_Konings)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/18 "2022-08-15T09:20:22Z")
Thanks for putting our book up on this page
## George Clinton and P-Funk
Year: 2013
Author/Editor: Arno Konings, Marcel Visser
books have been sold out loooong time ago…maybe its time for a 2.0 edition
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### Author:  [@eXilefunk](https://pfunkforums.com/u/eXilefunk)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/books-about-p-funk/89/19 "2022-08-15T13:27:20Z")
I have no clue how many times that I’ve read that Oral Histories book. I bought that book the summer of 2001 at some local bookstore. The guy was cool enough to order it for me.