Eddie Hazel

Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and musician from Brooklyn, New York. He is famously known for being the lead guitarist of Parliament-Funkadelic.

Hazel was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. He died in December 23, 1992, of liver failure, at the age of 42, in Plainfield, New Jersey.