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‘Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip/ and come up to the
Mothership”:
P.Funk’s “Mothership Connection (Starchild)” and the
Tropes of Science Fiction
“Guess what?” George Clinton said, breaking the news to an old
friend. “I’ve got a spaceship.”' The 1976 P-Funk Earth Tour would be
the band’s “first sold-out headlinin