But it did come from somewhere (and mutate into “boom shaka laka laka”), and that somewhere was the mind of Sylvester Stewart, better known to us all as Sly Stone. If for some reason that name ...

To follow up his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson turned his focus on one of the landmark acts ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the Family Stone, effectively ruled over American popular music, but by the middle part of the 1970s, Sly had descended into a nightmarish ...

By Rob Tannenbaum In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts ... the good times were over: The hits dried up and Stone’s drug ...

For one final show of gratitude, the band sped through an anthemic “Soul Sweet Song” to a two-part tribute to Sly & the Family Stone featuring guest keyboardist Deshawn “D’Vibes ...

Sly Stone and feel-good funk music seemingly go hand in hand, but there’s a darker message hiding behind his upbeat hits from the 1970s and ‘80s that music historian and famed Roots founder ...

Shortly after forming in 1966, Sly and the Family Stone produced a string of hits, including "Everyday People," "I Want to Take You Higher," "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Stand!" Stone’s ...

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 ...

In the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), which hits Hulu on Feb. 13 ... Phunne, whom Stone shared with Sly and the Family Stone cofounder and trumpet player Cynthia ...

Joseph Patel and 'SLY LIVES!' director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for ...