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 ...

American band Sly and the Family Stone at Hatchetts nightclub in London on Sept. 11, 1968. From left: Sly Stone, Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, Freddie Stone, Greg Errico and Jerry ...

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.

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.

Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk music ...

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 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 ...

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 ...