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It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul ...

NEW YORK — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music ...

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But what they created in their primes served as inspiration for legions of artists to come.

Based in San Francisco, Sly and the Family Stone was responsible for some of the biggest anthems of the late ’60s and early ...

Funk, rock and soul maverick Sly Stone died at 82 on Monday (June 9). According to a statement from his family, the Rock and ...

Sly Stone, a onetime SF deejay turned funk innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, sang on and produced an album ...

Stone's family announced the influential musician's death in a statement released Monday. They revealed that he had a ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of Sly Stone.

Along with his Family Stone, funk and soul pioneer Sly Stone made joyful music with a social message that’s still vital today ...