Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music ...

Funk pioneers Sly and the Family Stone had massive hits like Dance to the Music, Everyday People and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) before they disbanded ...

“Sly was a little disappointed that people weren’t losing their minds to his new single,” Questlove recounts. “Then, a girl he was with gave him the inspiration, saying, ‘It’s 1969, man.

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Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

In 1969. With hits like “Sing A Simple Song,” “Everyday People” and the title track, Sly & The Family Stone were at the forefront of funk and psychedelia.

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early ’80s, “I’m Back!

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 ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People ...

MARTÍNEZ: In the 1960s, his band, Sly & The Family Stone, combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf music to create a new sound. JASON KING: It was a music nobody had ever heard before.