Editing Mothership Connection (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name         = Mothership Connection
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]]
| cover        = ParliamentMothershipConnection.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = December 15, 1975
| recorded     = March–October 1975 <ref name=Soulculture>{{cite web|url= http://soulculture.com/music-blog/parliaments-1975-lp-mothership-connection-revisited-with-bernard-borrell-return-to-the-classics/ |title=Parliament's 1975 LP Mothership Connection revisited with Bernard Worrell |date=24 March 2012 |publisher=Soulculture.com |access-date=2015-02-24}}</ref>
| venue        = 
| studio       = United Sound, Detroit, Michigan, and Hollywood Sound, Hollywood, California
| genre        = *[[Funk]]<ref name="AM"/>
*[[rhythm & blues|R&B]]<ref name="Review: Mothership Connection">[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20754-parliament-up-for-the-down-stroke-chocolate-city-and-mothership-connection Review: ''Mothership Connection''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206145543/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20754-parliament-up-for-the-down-stroke-chocolate-city-and-mothership-connection |date=February 6, 2009 }}</ref>
*[[funk rock]]<ref>{{cite book|first= Wayne |last= Robins |year= 2016 |title= A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record |publisher= [[Routledge]] |page= 286 |isbn= 978-0-415-97472-1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PfvdCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA286}}</ref>
*[[disco]]<ref name="superseventies.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.superseventies.com/spparliament.html |title=Review: ''Mothership Connection'' |publisher=Superseventies.com |access-date=2013-07-14}}</ref>
*[[progressive soul]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Keister|first=Jay|title=Black Prog: Soul, Funk, Intellect and the Progressive Side of Black Music of the 1970s|journal=American Music Research Center Journal|volume=28|year=2019|url=https://www.colorado.edu/amrc/sites/default/files/attached-files/109701_cu_amrcjournal_cover_prf.pdf|via=colorado.edu|accessdate=January 29, 2021|pages=5–22}}</ref>
| length       = 38:18
| label        = [[Casablanca Records|Casablanca]]<br>{{small|NBLP 7022}}/[[Def Jam Recordings|Def Jam]]
| producer     = [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]
| prev_title   = [[Chocolate City (album)|Chocolate City]]
| prev_year    = 1975
| next_title   = [[The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein]]
| next_year    = 1976
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Mothership Connection
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)]]
 | single1date = 1976
 | single2     = [[Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)|Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)]]
 | single2date = 1976
 | single3     = [[Mothership Connection (Star Child)|Star Child (Mothership Connection)]]
 | single3date = 1976
}}
}}
'''''Mothership Connection''''' is the fourth album by American [[funk]] band [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]], released on December 15, 1975, on [[Casablanca Records]]. This [[concept album]] is often rated among the best [[Parliament-Funkadelic]] releases, and was the first to feature horn players [[Maceo Parker]] and [[Fred Wesley]], previously of [[James Brown]]'s backing band [[the J.B.'s]].

''Mothership Connection'' became Parliament's first album to be certified gold and later platinum.<ref>{{Certification Cite|region=United States|artist=Parliament|type=album}}</ref> It was supported by the hit "[[Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)]]," the band's first million-selling single. The [[Library of Congress]] added the album to the [[National Recording Registry]] in 2011, declaring that it "has had an enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/registry/nrpb-2011reg.html |title=Registry Choices 2010: The National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress) |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=2013-07-14}}</ref>