Eddie Hazel | |
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![]() Eddie Hazel performing with the P-Funk All Stars at the Palladium in New York City on June 25, 1991. Photo by Aldo Mauro | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Edward Earl Hazel |
Born | Brooklyn, New York City | April 10, 1950
Died | December 23, 1992 Plainfield, New Jersey | (aged 42)
Genres | |
Years active | 1967–1992 |
Labels | Warner Bros., JDC, P-Vine, Casablanca, Westbound, Capitol, CBS, Island |
Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic.[1][2] Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.[3] His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is hailed as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument".[4] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time.[5]