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Keeping It Crazy: George Clinton Stirs Up the Funk

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 8 October 1999

WHEN THE NEXT millennium beckons, George Clinton — ageless funkateer, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, the Atomic Dog himself — will be in Fiji, dressed in some outlandish, colorful garb, cavorting about a stage leading his 19-piece band, the P-Funk All-Stars, in a celebratory set of songs such as 'Give Up the Funk', 'Maggot Brain', and 'Free Your Mind'. And at that point, he will have been working as a professional musician for parts of six decades.

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