Sly made a considerable amount of great music after There’s a Riot Goin’ On —his 1973 follow-up, Fresh, is almost as good—though by the middle of the decade, decline had started to take hold.

He wrote, produced and arranged the music, winning acclaim as the author of invigorating anthems and an inventor of new, more complex recording sounds. Sly Stone in April 1972. (Associated Press file) ...

Sly Stone, who died Monday at 82, was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century — here are 10 reasons why.

In “For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History,” the Family Stone’s own saxophonist dismisses the "glorified Motown beats” of a song they wrote at the label’s insistence.

Sly Stone's legacy will live on in the revolutionary music he recorded in his prime, not to mention the music that music inspired, as celebrated in a recent documentary by Questlove of The Roots ...

Sly Stone’s Music Formed The Backdrop To Several Hip-Hop Classics Written by D.L. Chandler Published on June 9, 2025 ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over that half-decade helped map the future.

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music ...

One of the true pioneers of funk and soul music has sadly died. Sly Stone, frontman of the iconic band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, USA TODAY reported.

That’s because Sly Stone created music without boundaries or regard for the constraints of genre. It was Black music, because Sly was Black, and that’s the only kind of music we can make.