The documentary ‘Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)’ explores the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Sly & The Family Stone — a band that defined a new era in the 1960s, led by a frontman as ...

But one performance in the documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial band Sly and the Family Stone ... band's 1971 album cover for There's ...

“I hate to say it,” the rhythm and blues singer D’Angelo ventures toward the end of Questlove’s new documentary “Sly Lives!” (streaming on Hulu), “but these White rock-and-rollers ...

The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in ... Hits like “Everyday People,” “Stand!”, “Dance to the Music,” “Family Affair” and “If You ...

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s ... Sly had released this really intelligent debut album called A Whole New Thing, which is ...

"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." 50 Years Ago: Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family ...

Sly And The Family Stone are meant to be starting ... and “I Wanna Take You Higher” is great, too. “Stand” is even better, and now Stone is sat on his piano stool, spinning round and ...

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.