The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made “culture-changing hits,” in the words of no less a figure than record mogul ...

The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made “culture-changing hits,” in the words of no less a figure than record mogul Clive Davis.

Released in 2021, Summer of Soul (…or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – a documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival – received rave reviews for first-time director Ahmir ...

Even the Family Stone members [we ... out who are the people that could speak to Sly’s story as proxies.” That’s also because the 82-year-old Stone wasn’t interviewed for the movie.

The set included songs from her time with The Runaways, covers of The Replacements and Sly and the Family Stone, and the classics, closing with “I Hate Myself For Loving You” and “Bad ...

Daily Dirt for Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Sly Stone: The J.D. Salinger of funk … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,277 of The Daily Dirt. 1. Today we reveal the No. 4 group in our week ...

Welcome to this select club, Sly & The Family Stone, the first major U.S. rock group to have a racially integrated/mixed-gender lineup. The band was able to successfully combine such elements as ...