Sly Stone, of legendary group Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at 82. Now, one fan recalls the night Sly showed up hours late to a D.C. show in 1970.

The Beach Boys and the Family Stone represent divergent visions of America that came into acrid conflict over the course of the ’60s. Both bands presented as kin.

In a cruel coincidence, this week has brought the deaths of two pop world builders at 82: Sly Stone and Brian Wilson.Both were exemplars of 1960s California, with Sly & the Family Stone ...

Sly Stone was a radio DJ before he found fame with Sly and the Family Stone. - Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images One day in 2009, Alec Palao found himself inside a Target in Los Angeles ...

For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the direction of popular music in a way that few artists had before him ...

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 and the Family Stone performed at the concert, which was intended to be an opportunity for the community to mourn the loss of legendary civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was ...

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 ...

The concert took place on Easter morning, March 26, 1967, towards the end of Sly and the Family Stone's residency at the Bay Area music venue Winchester Cathedral (they served as the house band ...

Rock star Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone appears in April 1972. Credit: AP He felt the pressure in trying to follow up “Pet Sounds,” and “Smile” became music's most ...

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died two days apart, both 82 years old, geniuses of vastly different musical persuasions whose periods of greatest flourishing melded into one another.