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Sly & the Family Stone on “The Midnight Special.” Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images “He challenged people’s perception of normalcy,” Mr. Williams wrote in The New York Times.
Sly Stone, musician and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at age 82 after battling lung disease. According to a statement posted by his family on social media, Stone had long ...
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 ...
Stone changed R&B, soul and rock music forever (while helping to invent funk along the way) with a pop sensibility that few artists have ever even dreamed of.
Sly and the Family Stone gave fans another memorable performance on August 17, 1969 when they took the stage at Woodstock, the legendary outdoor concert in Bethel, New York which featured some of ...
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!
But in 1983, following a struggle with drug and alcohol abuse, Sly Stone went into permanent retirement, and the band disbanded. For decades, music lovers wondered what happened to Sly.
Reading an obituary of Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, strikes as surreal in 2025. Didn’t he overdose in 1975? No, he just disappeared from popular culture around that time and we ...
The concert took place on Easter morning, March 26, 1967, towards the end of Sly and the Family Stone’s residency at the Bay Area music venue Winchester Cathedral (they served as the house band ...
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's legacy will live on in the revolutionary music he recorded in his prime, not to mention the music that music inspired, as celebrated in a recent documentary by Questlove of The Roots ...