Give Up the Funk Edition Part 1
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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Funk in the 70s
The 70s was positively awash in funk in all of its forms. Bands like Earth Wind and Fire raised the LP to an art form. Freddy's Dead, the lead single from Curtis Mayfield's Superfly soundtrack, broke into the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100. And it took one soul legend who had shaped several waves of black art to establish that funk would fuse with psychedelic soul.
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