Forthcoming Bernie Worrell biography & vintage zine

There was a question on Twitter yesterday https://twitter.com/marcissist/status/1588563239486382080?s=61&t=TMKvbqGLUy6cjbojHClbiw asking about books about P-Funk, and apart from the expected Clinton autobiography, Oral History book & Rickey Vincent’s Funk book, there was mention that Cedric Hendrix https://cirdecsongs.com/ is writing an authorised biography of Bernie Worrell. Unsurprisingly, it sounds like it may not be very positive regarding George!

The thread also threw up a link to a music zine from 1989, Motor Booty https://archive.org/details/motorbooty_4 which contains interviews with George, Pedro Bell & Fuzzy Haskins, plus an overview of Funkadelic releases. Not sure if it’s been posted here before, but there are some interesting nuggets in there. Enjoy!

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That book will be interesting to read! I think he’s been working on it since beginning om 2020. On that cirdecsongs page there’s a lot of blog posts about his work on it. A lot of stuff to read. One thing I remember reading was that Jerome Brailey was part of the first version of the woo warriors. Didn’t know that.

Yeah that Motorbooty magazine is great! Been posted in this topic. :stuck_out_tongue:

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This is looking promising!
https://twitter.com/cirdecsongs/status/1627748986793693189?s=61&t=AwqwUE2lAyyfAIGL9_cYLg

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