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Long before today’s superstars brought spectacle to the stage, offering performance art as opposed to simply a performance, an incredible thing happened: A Black man descended upon a stage from a spaceship.
The man in question was George Clinton. The night in question: Oct. 27, 1976. The stage: The Municipal Auditorium in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. The spacecraft:
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