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Pedro Bell designed the cover art for more than a two dozen George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic albums.
(Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)
Artist behind iconic album art struggling to get by Thick dust covers the gold lame shirt and silver leather coat in Pedro Bell's closet. The clothes are remnants from a brighter time when Bell, a rainbow Afro wig on his head and platform shoes on his feet, strutted through Chicago as a charter member of the '70s funk revolution whose sound is heavily sampled in rap songs today. "It was psychedelic from a black perspective," Bell said.

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