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 ...

But coming in like a bolt of lightning during Summer of Soul was Sly and the Family Stone, blowing everyone ... radio DJ and producer in 1964, creating hits that didn’t sound like anything ...

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 ...

Writer of such hits as “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music,” his band Sly & the Family Stone emerged as a titanic figure of late 1960s and ’70s, infiltrating pop culture with an ...

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 ...

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 ...