The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn't just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made "culture-changing hits," in the words of no less a figure than record mogul Clive Davis.

he quotes from his own hits and shares lead vocals with all six other band members. The first Sly & the Family Stone album sold poorly, and Stone’s record company pressured him for a single.

One can’t overstate just how influential Sly and the Family Stone were for the development ... The group’s 1970 Greatest Hits album (released at a time when such collections were not yet ...

February 12, 2025 • Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson says that telling Sly Stone's story with empathy was a way to open a conversation about Black artists and mental health. February 10, 2025 • In ...

Shortly after forming in 1966, Sly and the Family Stone produced a string of hits, including "Everyday People," "I Want to Take You Higher," "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Stand!" Stone’s ...

(aka the Burden of Black Genius), which hits Hulu on Feb. 13 ... Phunne, whom Stone shared with Sly and the Family Stone cofounder and trumpet player Cynthia Robinson, says in an on-camera ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone, embodying countercultural possibility.

Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially ...

Joseph Patel and 'SLY LIVES!' director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for ...