Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare)
Plainfield Avenue & Third Street, Plainfield, NJ
When: 1955
What: When he was 16, the funk pioneer formed a Doo-wop group inspired by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers called The Parliaments while working at a barber salon straightening hair. They would later become Parliament, the acid-funk alter-ego of Funkadelic.
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