A funk, soul and rock music collective headed by George Clinton. Its origins date back to the doo-wop group The Parliaments, formed in the late 1950s. Under Clinton's direction, by the early 1970s the groups Parliament and Funkadelic were operating concurrently and consisted of the same stable of musicians playing different types of funk music for two different labels. The name Parliament-Funkadelic became the catch-all term for the multiple bands in Clinton's stable. By the late 1970s the collective had grown to include dozens of musicians recording and touring under many different group names and solo projects.