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William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the group’s original bassist, died Saturday at the age of 75. The band announced Nelson’s death in a Facebook post Saturday. A cause of death has yet to be revealed.

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Funk icon William 'Billy Bass' Nelson, a co-founder of George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective, has died at age 75 of undisclosed causes.

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