Formed in 1966 after a pair of bands were combined, Sly & the Family Stone made waves during the turbulent late 1960s not only with their music but the fact that the group was racially integrated ...

The Family Stone was the first major American rock band to be racially integrated. Sly and the Family Stone released its first album in October 1967, "A Whole New Thing," but it received only ...

Sly and the Family Stone formed in California in 1966 and went on to top pop and R&B charts with songs like "Everyday People" and "Dance to the Music." The band was led by the multi ...

The band Sly and the Family Stone is pictured in 1969. (Getty Images) Sly’s time on top was brief, roughly from 1968 to 1971, but profound.

June 9 (UPI) -- Sly Stone, the legendary Sixties and Seventies funk singer, songwriter and producer of the band, Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at the age of 82. Stone, whose hits included ...

And Freddie Stone, he was almost the power behind the throne. It’s not just that Sly was a singular genius — that band was incredibly impactful. He was the original code-switcher.

Led by Sly Stone, with his leather jumpsuits and goggle shades, mile-wide grin and mile-high Afro, the band dazzled in 1969 at the Woodstock festival and set a new pace on the radio. “Everyday ...

Sly Stone, the influential, eccentric and preternaturally rhythmic singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose run of hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s with his band the ...

Sly and the Family Stone released its first album in October 1967, "A Whole New Thing," but it received only limited attention. Just a month later, the band would be launched into the stratosphere ...