{"id":10142,"date":"2019-09-06T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:51:00","slug":"pedro-bell-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/06\/pedro-bell-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Bell Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Bell, Whose Wild Album Covers Defined Funkadelic, Dies at 69<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

His vivid imagery, hypersexualized and full of futuristic themes, helped create the mythology of George Clinton\u2019s groundbreaking group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/strong>Neil Genzlinger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pedro
Pedro Bell in 2009. His psychedelic album covers for the pioneering band Funkadelic featured topless women, space imagery and mutants and, as one curator put it, \u201cplaced African-American reality in the context of a science fiction future.\u201d Credit: Jean Lachat\/Chicago Sun-Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Bell, whose mind-bending album covers for the band Funkadelic gave visual definition to its signature sound in the 1970s and \u201980s, died on Tuesday in Evergreen Park, Ill., near Chicago. He was 69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Clinton, the brains behind Funkadelic,\u00a0announced his death<\/a> on his Facebook page. Mr. Bell had been in poor health for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Bell created his first cover for Funkadelic, the pioneering band that merged funk and psychedelic rock, in 1973. The album was \u201cCosmic Slop,\u201d 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\u2019s artwork and the liner notes he wrote under the name Sir Lleb (\u201cBell\u201d spelled backward) helped define Funkadelic and its elaborate mythology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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