Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important ...

In the prime of Sly & the Family Stone, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts as well as a fount of remarkable singles including “Everyday People” and “Hot Fun in the ...

Out of the thousands of songs produced under the rock umbrella, a select few standouts have truly stood the test of time. In ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

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 ...

The tragic truth is that Sly Stone's recording career was only a very short part of his life. The singer and bandleader, who died this week at 82, was a groundbreaking figure in popular culture of the ...

Some songs become more than the textbook definition of a hit because they do more than encourage a sing-along moment. Some records stop the world. Some help reshape a perspective. And others become ...

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 combined both, ...