Sly Stone, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame with the band Sly and the Family Stone, has died. He was 82. “After a prolonged battle with COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and other ...

Sly Stone died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music. If you ...

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Sly Stone was more than a legendary musician. He made moments — moments of joy, rebellion, connection and radical love. With his band, Sly and the Family Stone, he created a sound big enough to hold ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...

Producer Michael Nash wanted to do something special to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sound Summit, his annual rock festival on Mount Tamalpais. His idea was to use top Bay Area musicians to pay ...

It happened this past week ... we learned of the passing of two giants of popular music: Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys; and Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone. Born Sylvester Stewart in ...

It takes one music icon to know one. Nile Rodgers, the legendary producer and Chic bandleader, worshiped Sly Stone long before he became friends with the funk pioneer, who passed away at 82 on Monday, ...

It was Sly Stone’s mission to alter the pathways in our brains. His vision was of soulful, transcendental music that could lead us into new dimensions — not just those colorful, kaleidoscopic ...

There are few — if any — American rock bands that have had a more profound impact over time than Sly and the Family Stone. To start with, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees served up an impressive ...

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