Among Sly and the Family Stone's greatest triumphs was their 1969 appearance at Woodstock, where they performed in the midst of a 3:30 a.m. downpour, roused a mud-caked crowd of 500,000, ...

Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early '80s, "I'm Back!

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 ...

Sly & the Family Stone, Forever No. 1: “Everyday People” (1969) / “Thank You Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin” (1970) The song’s untraditional groove was matched by a near-unrecognizable Sly ...

1 of 4 | Sly Stone, frontman of the group Sly and the Family Stone, performs in concert at Olympia Hall in Paris on July 23, 2007. Stone, who had been a recluse since the mid-1980s, died Monday at ...

Sly and the Family Stone deliver a blistering cover of Otis Redding's 'I Can't Turn You Loose' in the latest track from a rare 1967 live album.

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

In the wake of Sly Stone’s death at age 82, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid made the case for why Sly and the Family Stone deserve a place at the top of the canon of American bands. Here it ...

Musician Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, performs at the Woodstock Festival on August 17, 1969 in Bethel, New York. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Sly Stone ...

Funk musician Sly Stone died last night at the age of 82, after a long struggle with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and other underlying health issues, according to a statement released by ...

With Sly & the Family Stone, Nile Rodgers said that the late Sly Stone “changed music.” Redferns. Another legendary producer, Jimmy Jam, recalled sampling Sly & the Family Stone’s 1970 chart ...

Founded in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations ...