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Sly & The Family Stone got the coveted call to be featured performers on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1968. Following Sly’s invocation, “Don’t ...
The Oscar-winning producer shares how he and Questlove created a powerful tribute capturing the funk icon's genius and legacy before his passing.
Director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Oscar-winning producer Joseph Patel discuss "Sly Lives!" Six New States Now Able to ...
The drummer and record producer discusses his documentary on Sly Stewart of Sly and the Family Stone, exploring the rise, ...
We're joined by music historian and professor Rickey Vincent to talk about the legacy of Sly Stone. He talks to us about what made the funk icon so special and why there'll never be another like ...
Sly and the Family Stone deliver a blistering cover of Otis Redding's 'I Can't Turn You Loose' in the latest track from a rare 1967 live album.
Sly Stone, a musician and songwriter best known for his work with Sly and the Family Stone, died June 9 at age 82. The cause of his death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as well as ...
Stone’s band was multiracial. It was composed of both men and women. In his style, Sly Stone communicated that every individual contains multitudes. And all of them are worthy of the spotlight.
There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...
From Snoop Dogg to LL Cool J, these are some of the best Sly Stone samples in hip-hop history.
Sly Stone was a musical alchemist, combining soul, funk, and psychedelic rock with elements of gospel, jazz, and Latin music to create the new sound of the 1960s. With his prodigious Afro and ...