Billy Bass Nelson, founding bassist of Parliament-Funkadelic and a key architect of funk rock, has died at 75 following recent health issues.

Billy Bass, the founding bassist for Parliament-Funkadelic whose real name was William Nelson, Jr., died on Saturday. The Facebook account for that group’s frontman, George Clinton, announced the news ...

George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be ...

Billy Bass, the founding Parliament- Funkadelic bassist, died Saturday night at the age of 75. P-Funk bandleader George ...

The Rock & Roll Heaven just got a little bit funkier.” “OM NOOO,” Carol A. Douglas wrote. “I AM SO VERY SORRY. PRAYED HARD.