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F ifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the Family Stone was booked to play a ...
Sly Stone, who created visionary psychedelic rock, soul and pop that helped integrate popular music and captured harsh social ...
Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...
Sly Stone, funk pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at the age of 82, following what his family ...
People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...
Sly Stone died Monday after "a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues," according to a family ...
The drummer-producer and documentarian explains why that theme was central to his film on the funk band Sly and the Family ...
Sly Stone. In a lengthy and emotional Instagram post, the musician — who directed the documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), about Stone’s life and has long described him as ...
(Questlove went on to direct “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)," a 2025 Hulu documentary focused on Stone. While Stone's band was among the earliest of the '60s groups to feature a ...
To follow up his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson turned his focus on one of the landmark acts featured in that lauded documentary, Sly and the Family Stone. The result, Hulu's ...
Funk legend Sly Stone passed away Monday at the age of 82. He performed and toured with the late Rudy Love, a Wichita ...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson directed the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius that premiered at Sundance this year, and now he has penned a moving tribute to his ...