LOS ANGELES — Sly Stone is homeless and living in a camper-van in L.A., the world learned Sunday, thanks to the director of a documentary about Sly and the Family Stone who co-wrote a story for ...

The world lost a music icon on Monday, June 9, with the passing of Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, at his home in Los Angeles. The 82-year-old musician, who showed an interest in ...

What made Sly Stone truly iconic was his fearless originality. Long before artists like Prince, OutKast, or D’Angelo blurred genre lines and identity expectations, Sly was already doing it.

His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding. Sly Stone, 1969. If you want to see my aunt Pam stop what she’s doing and dance, play Sly and ...

Funk master and iconic music innovator Sly Stone, whose songs drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking influential albums but also a slide into drug addiction, has ...

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 ...

Sly and the Family Stone rip through a rendition of Otis Redding’s “I Can’t Turn You Loose” in the latest offering from the upcoming album, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967.

Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ...

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!