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BERNIE WORRELL

Keyboardist who was an essential cog in George Clinton's P-Funk machine.

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ACTIVE

1960s - 2010s

BORN

April 19, 1944 in Long Branch, NJ

DIED

June 24, 2016 in Everson, WA

GENRE

R&B

STYLES

Funk, Improvisation, Modern Creative, Post-Bop

ALSO KNOWN AS

George Bernard Worrell, Jr.

MEMBER OF

Black Jack Johnson, Parliament, Space Cadets, Funkadelic, Baby Elephant, Third
Rail, Socialybrium, The Golden Palominos, Time Zone



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BIOGRAPHY


BERNIE WORRELL BIOGRAPHY BY JOHN BOOK

Raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, Bernie Worrell was a classically trained
pianist at three years old. Throughout his childhood he played with symphonies
and orchestras, and even wrote his own concerto at the age of eight. Slowly, he
listened to the radio and discovered sounds other than classical, and when he
went to college, he played with a number of bar bands, including the Tavares
(who were known as Chubby & the Turnpikes back then). It was also around this
time that Worrell met George Clinton, who was the vocalist for a
Motown-influenced group called the Parliaments. The Parliaments soon split up
and moved to Detroit, where Clinton re-formed them into a new group, called
Parliament. Clinton then formed another side band, called Funkadelic, several of
whose members had been in Parliament but were now performing under the new name
due to contractual glitches. Worrell joined Funkadelic in 1970, beginning with
their album Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow. He was an essential part of
the P-Funk mob and continued to play with them right up until the early '80s. He
then joined Talking Heads as a session man and went on tour with them throughout
the '80s, basically working with David Byrne and the band right up to their
split in early 1992. Besides his solo career, Worrell continued to work with
members of P-Funk, including Bootsy Collins. His work on such songs as
"Flashlight," "(Not Just) Knee Deep," and "Cosmic Slop" influenced not only
other R&B/soul artists but also many rap groups, who extensively sampled his
work in their own songs. Bernie Worrell died of lung cancer at his home in
Everson, Washington in June 2016 at 72 years of age.


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