To be called a “pioneer in black music” isn’t at all easy. You have to be good; you have to be different and be doing something that’s basically unheard of. That’s a reasonably accurate picture of Sly ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Stone, funk pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at the age of 82, following what his family ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world lost a major cultural icon on Monday with the passing of Sly Stone. The Sly and the Family Stone frontman was more than ...
Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone died Monday (June 9) at age 82, and the music community is grieving the groundbreaking funk pioneer. Questlove, who directed the new documentary Sly Lives (aka ...
“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone,” his family said in a statement on Monday, June 9. “After a prolonged battle with ...
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,” ...
Sly Stone, the iconic and talented frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died. Stone was 82 years old when he passed. He died surrounded by family after battling several ailments, including ...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, who directed the new documentary “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” has shared a remembrance of the subject of his film, Sly Stone. The 82 year-old died of COPD ...
The idea of Sly Stone and REO Speedwagon in the studio together seems both strange and unlikely. But when you consider the path that the funk pioneer took with his own career, it all starts to make ...
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 ...
André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...
“His work looked straight at the brightest and darkest parts of life and demanded we do the same,” wrote Questlove of the late Sly and the Family Stone frontman. The world lost a major cultural icon ...