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George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) [1] was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. In later years, he also worked with acts such as Talking Heads, Bill Laswell, and Jack Bruce.
Whether a chart topper or the gatekeeper to a deep cut, Bernie Worrell has infiltrated your ears, your eyes (most recently in Stop Making Sense’s 40 year anniversary!) and your heart.
Jun 24, 2016 · Bernie Worrell, a member of Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads, passed away in 2016 after battling cancer. He was a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a pioneer of synthesizer and funk music.
Bernie Worrell Biography. Bernie Worrell first came to prominence as a founding member and Musical Director of Parliament/Funkadelic. While this massively influential supergroup was radically altering the course of music, Bernie was radically charting the course of emerging keyboard technology during the golden age of analog synthesis.
Composer and keyboardist Bernie Worrell played funk, soul, and broke genres as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and a performer with Talking Heads. Worrell died Friday at the age...
Jun 24, 2016 · By Jon Pareles. June 24, 2016. Bernie Worrell, the keyboardist whose anarchic solos and Moog synthesizer bass lines with Parliament-Funkadelic indelibly changed the sound of funk and...
Jun 24, 2016 · Keyboardist and composer Bernie Worrell, who helped shape the sound of the band Parliament-Funkadelic and influenced countless artists across a wide range of genres, died Friday at 72. Worrell...
