About the Book
Best Discography in the 2024 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
“Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history – finding everybody who's been a part of, involved with, or in any way left their fingerprint on what has become the P-Funk.” – George Clinton
This revised paperback edition includes over 100 additional artists and groups – notable P-Funk collaborations with a wide-ranging and, at times, surprising cast, including Boy George, Ginger Baker, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rita Coolidge, Yoko Ono, Public Image Ltd, Afrika Bambaataa, and many more. It also includes P-Funk releases in recent years as well as important corrections to pre-existing entries.
George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) stands as one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history, with an impressively large discography, enormous number of members, and long history. This authorized reference, written by the longest-tenured keyboardist for P-Funk, provides the official P-Funk canon starting in 1956: every project, album, collaboration, song, details of personnel for songs, and tidbits about each act and select songs, as well as dozens of rare photos.
Song entries are organized under artist & group names and contain definitive listings of players for each song. Select entries shed light on the inner workings of the recording process, singles chartings, controversies, inside information about process, and more. The culmination of nearly 30 years of careful research, interviews, and access to exclusive archival material, this authorized volume demystifies one of the most unique and influential popular musical groups in history, from its inception as The Parliaments to the present day.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Some Notes on Process
Special Thanks
Interview List
Information on the List
Criterion for Canon
Errata
1. Artists Starting in 1956 - 1966
2. Artists Starting in 1967 - 1977
3. Artists Starting in 1978 - 1988
4. Artists Starting in 1989 - 1999
5. Artists Starting in 2000 - 2010
6. Artists Starting in 2011 - 2021
7. Artists Starting in 2022 - 2025
8. Live Releases
Index. Artist, Group, and Band Name
Index. Songs with Descriptions
About the Author :
Danny Bedrosian is the keyboardist for George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic and author of The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference (Rowman & Littlefield 2023) and Make My Funk the P-Funk: Parliament-Funkadelic's Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection (Bloomsbury Academic 2025). Playing with the band for over 20 years, he is the longest tenured keyboard player in the band's history. In addition to P-Funk, he has worked or performed with many musical icons including Snoop Dogg, Chuck D and Flavor Flav, Ice Cube, Shavo Odadjian from System of A Down, Kendrick Lamar, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah, Mumford & Sons, RZA, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Sheila E, Wu-Tang Clan, and many more. He has appeared on The BET 25th Anniversary Special, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Carson Daly Show, I'm With Rolling Stone, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Monique Show, MTV in several nations, and many other shows.
Review :
Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history-finding everybody who's been a part of, involved with, or in any way left their fingerprint on what has become the P-Funk. I'm still trying to figure out when he had time to do this; he ain't ever missed a show!
The mysteries have been uncovered for every funkateer who has ever been moved by P-Funk but baffled by who did what. Meticulously researched, the secrets are revealed straight from a P-Funk member, deep from the inner circle!
George Clinton's recorded output is amongst the very greatest achievements in musical history, and I'm grateful for the knowledge of who sang and played on what song, which this book bestows.
Its elaborate structure should be mastered by the next P-Funk historians and obsessive fans towards mining this rich song legacy.
This book is music history and Danny is the only man who knows all these P-Funk facts. It's about time someone put all these credits and information together. This is invaluable info. Danny, thank you on behalf of all us maggots out here. This book belongs in a museum!
