But one performance in the documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial band Sly and the Family Stone in all its glorious, psychedelic soul ...

Cynthia Robinson, a founding member of Sly And The Family Stone, has died aged 69. According to a post on her Facebook page, she died on Monday, November 23. "Friends, Famliy and Fans through out ...

At nine o’clock, the omens are not great. Sly And The Family Stone are meant to be starting their headlining set right now, and the strict curfew on this inner-city festival is 10.30. On the ...

(aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s. The group’s hits, including “Everyday People,” “Dance to ...

Sly and the Family Stone performing at the Woodstock Festival, 1969Credit: © 1969 Jason Laure Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation turns the lens back at ...

There’s something that, as Sly and the Family Stone sings, ‘takes you higher.’ ’’ Funk music also took us higher back then because of a quality that’s missing today from popular music ...

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Still, pop culture connected people in ways that politics couldn’t. Sly and the Family Stone gave us integrated soul. Star Trek showed us a multicultural TV cast, McDonald’s got us to eat Big ...

Funk trailblazer who upended rock and soul in the '60s and '70s as leader of Sly & the Family Stone.Wikipedia Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone ...

Blige classic of the same name; elsewhere on the album there’s a bassline that recalls “Fresh”-era Sly & the Family Stone and horn arrangements that are Fela-esque in one place and P-Funked ...