Garry "Jellybean" Johnson, a funk rock musician best known as a founding member of the Prince-associated band The Time, has died at the age of 69.

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They must have been doing something right, though, because the acid jazz legends’ fanbase included the likes of Prince, Stevie Wonder and fellow old-school soul revivalist Mark Ronson.

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The longtime Prince collaborator and multi-instrumentalist, celebrated for shaping the Minneapolis Sound, is remembered.

Jellybean Johnson, who was the drummer of the famed funk-rock band The Time, has passed away. According to Deadline, Johnson, who was not married but was in a long-term relationship with Marty Bragg, ...

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