And on the seventh day, amid a haze of Hendrixian goo, copulatin’ bass-throb, sinewy organ vamps, nappy gulps of harp and lysergically stained vocals, God inhaled deeply and created Funkadelic. By ...

Five years into its radically ingenious musical career, freak-maestro George Clinton’s influential funk rock collective Parliament-Funkadelic had released nine consecutive albums—six as Funkadelic, ...