Sly Stone, musician and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at age 82 after battling lung disease. According to a statement posted by his family on social media, Stone had long ...

Funk master and iconic music innovator Sly Stone, whose songs drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking influential albums but also a slide into drug addiction, has ...

Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

Sly Stone, leader of the self-named genre-bending funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. A statement released by his family shared, “After a prolonged battle with COPD and other ...

With Sly & the Family Stone, Nile Rodgers said that the late Sly Stone “changed music.” Redferns. Another legendary producer, Jimmy Jam, recalled sampling Sly & the Family Stone’s 1970 chart ...

Musician Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, performs at the Woodstock Festival on August 17, 1969 in Bethel, New York. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Sly Stone. Born Sylvester Stewart in ...

Sly Stone was born in Texas, but raised in the blue-collar Bay Area town of Vallejo. He was just five years old when he cut his first record with his family gospel group, the Stewart Four.

Where were you when you heard the news about Sly Stone's June 9 death from COPD and, according to his family, "other underlying health issues"? I was on my way to a doctor's appointment, and I ...