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Pedro Bell

Pedro Bell (1950 - 2019) is known for Scandalous Funkadelic album cover art.

"Pedro Bell, Whose Wild Album Covers Defined Funkadelic, Dies at 69," Online obituary of The New York Times, By Neil Genzlinger, Aug 30, 2019

His vivid imagery, hypersexualized and full of futuristic themes, helped create the mythology of George Clinton’s groundbreaking group.

Pedro Bell, whose mind-bending album covers for the band Funkadelic gave visual definition to its signature sound in the 1970s and ’80s,  died on Tuesday in Evergreen Park, Ill., near Chicago. He was 69.

George Clinton, the brains behind Funkadelic, announced his death on his Facebook page. Mr. Bell had been in poor health for many years.

Mr. Bell created his first cover for Funkadelic, the pioneering band that merged funk and psychedelic rock, in 1973. The album was Cosmic Slop, and it featured a topless woman, space imagery and mutants. Though Funkadelic and its sister act, Parliament, had been around for several years, Mr. Bell’s artwork and the liner notes he wro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7064 characters.]  Artist bio

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