Sly Stone’s joyful provocations may not have lasted at the commercial centre, but his mark was indelible. His struggles were both personal and social, but his sense of groove, and of a collective ...

The family also added that Stone had, “recently completed the screenplay for his life story, a project we are eager to share ...

Public Enemy's Chuck D grew up listening to the music made by Sly Stone, who died Monday at age 82 - and that music became a ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

He’ll be remembered as an artist who changed the way people make and listen to music, and who did that twice. Sly was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943 and grew up in Vallejo, ...

Mixing styles at a critical moment in American history, Sly Stone helped create the musical world we live in today.

In 1983, Sly Stone stopped by The Pantagraph offices to chat with entertainment writer Dan Craft, with whom a previously ...

Behind it all was Sly Stone, the visionary who died Monday at 82 after a long battle with the lung disease COPD. He wrote, ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over that half-decade helped map the future. The singer, songwriter, producer and ...

One of the key figures in American music in the late ’60s got his professional start in the Bay Area. These are some of the ...

The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak of its powers, had implored its 400,000 rapt attendees to take it higher ...