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How's this for a hot 45? In 1969, Sly and the Family Stone released the song "Stand!" as an A-side. On the B-side: "I Want to ...
(aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s. The group’s hits, including “Everyday People,” “Dance to ...
The documentary ‘Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)’ explores the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Sly & The ...
(aka the Burden of Black Genius), Questlove's admiring portrait ... life-affirming intimacy between the members of Sly & the Family Stone. It also shows, perhaps unintentionally, that this ...
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Musician and documentary filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is back to talk about his new Hulu documentary about Sly Stone. It's called SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius).
Funk trailblazer who upended rock and soul in the '60s and '70s as leader of Sly & the Family Stone.Wikipedia Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone ...
Questlove speaks on Sly Stone and Black genius more broadly, Ke Huy Quan tells us about his new film “Love Hurts,” and Jason Schwartzman has The Treat. The new show “Unconventional” follows two queer ...
Sly And The Family Stone ... who at least was a genius once, is irresistible to me. Barely sighted onstage in over two decades, Stone is playing just down the road from home in Hackney.
"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." 50 Years Ago: Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family ...