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In this seminal music memoir Father of Funk George Clinton talks four decades of hit songs drug abuse the evolution of pop rock and soul music his legal pitfalls and much much moreGeorge Clinton began his musical career in New Jersey where his obsession with doo-wop and RB led to a barbershop quartetliterally as Clinton and his friends also styled hair in the local shopthe way kids often got their musical start in the s But how many kids like that ended up playing to tens of thousands of rabid fans alongside a diaper-clad guitarist How many of them commissioned a spaceship and landed it onstage during concerts How many put their stamp on four decades of pop music from the mind-expanding sixties to the hip-hop-dominated nineties and beyond One of them Thats how many How George Clinton got from barbershop quartet to funk music megastar is a story for the ages As a high school student he traveled to New York City where he absorbed all the trends in pop music from traditional rhythm and blues to Motown the Beatles the Stones and psychedelic rock not to mention the formative funk of James Brown and Sly Stone By the dawn of the seventies he had emerged as the leader of a wildly creative musical movement composed mainly of two bandsParliament and Funkadelic And by the bicentennial Clinton and his P-Funk empire were dominating the soul charts as well as the pop charts He was an artistic visionary visual icon merry prankster absurdist philosopher and savvy businessmen all rolled into one He was like no one else in pop music before or since Candid hilarious outrageous and poignant Booklist this memoir provides tremendous insight into Americas music industry as forever changed by Clintons massive talent This is a story of a beloved global icon who dedicated himself to spreading the gospel of funk music.