George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

A founding member of groundbreaking New Jersey funk rock band Parliament-Funkadelic has died. William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the group’s original bassist, died Saturday at the age of 75. The band ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson Jr., whose bass playing helped define the revolutionary funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic, died ...

With George Clinton's empire suddenly crumbling on a number of fronts, he tried to rally for Funkadelic's final stand, 1981's The Electric Spanking of War Babies. But by his own admission, he wasn't ...

The musician born William Nelson, Jr. played on the George Clinton-led Funkadelic's first three studio albums.

William ‘Billy Bass’ Nelson, the original bassist for the funk rock band Funkadelic and a key figure in 1970s funk, has died at 75. Nelson got his start as a teenager working in singer George ...

At this point, Funkadelic still had a few years to go before they'd unite us as one nation under a groove, but they offered a pungent whiff of things to come with their seventh LP, Let's Take It to ...

The multi-talented musician was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997 Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and ...

It’s a story almost too strange to tell, a chronicle of life and death and rebirth, spanning decades, including more characters than one could ever remember, beginning in the heart of black America ...

Fifty years: a breath. A snap of the fingers. Or in the case of Funkadelic’s Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow—recorded in one day, with the whole band tripping on LSD—a single ageless ...

Nelson co-founded the Parliaments with George Clinton and was responsible for the name "Funkadelic" Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...