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 ...

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

Flea has led tributes to the Funkadelic bassist, who was one of the founding architects of funk’s most audacious musical ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...