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 ...

Sylvester Stewart was born in Texas in 1943 but spent most of his life in California, where he became one of the icons of San ...

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,” “Stand!” and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Sly Stone, one of the most innovative musicians in recorded music ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at ...

It’s hard to “fight the power” and win, but 59 years ago, Sly Stone managed to walk away with the W. One of his greatest. Facing label pressure to abandon his psychedelic sound in favor of a more ...

Original Sly and the Family Stone founding members Jerry Martini and Greg Errico, along with Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson’s daughter, Phunne Stone, kicked off the Everyday People tour in Las Vegas ...

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, ...