I WAS A BRIDE OF FUNKENSTEIN!

ATORI Shakoor was still Jeanette McGruder when she joined P-Funk’s female offshoot in 1978, first as a backing vocalist on (1978), then as a (1979), whose title track is a joyous high point of Clinton’s producing art. Today, she considers the role of these P-Funk women: “The Brides were beautiful, heavenly bodies floating in space, with spandex and foxtails and gyrating bodies – like Beyoncé. We were wild and powerful, and the stages were up high.