Musician George "Funky" Brown has died. The renowned drummer and songwriter of the music group Kool & the Gang passed away at his home in Los Angeles. He is known to have co-written songs for the band ...

Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a variation on the word “funk” in its title, died May 17 of unknown causes in an ...

George “Funky” Brown, the drummer, founding member and one of the main songwriters of pop-R&B group Kool & The Gang, died in Los Angeles last night following a battle with lung cancer. He was 74.

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie has had a lot of bosses in his five-decade career. As "the world's most-recorded drummer," he can't even remember them all. But nobody forgets working for James Brown—and not ...

Clyde Stubblefield, the funk drummer whose work with James Brown made him one of the most sampled musicians in history, died Saturday morning in Madison, Wisc. He was 73. He joined James Brown’s ...

NEW YORK — George “Funky” Brown, the co-founder and longtime drummer of Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as “Too Hot,” “Ladies Night,” “Joanna” and the party favorite “Celebration,” died ...