Sly Stone wasn’t only among the first songwriter-musician-producers to create pop music that combined so many genres, and a band that mixed genders and races, so fluidly: He was also a world-class ...

Sly Stone wrote this minor, yet important, hit solo and also primarily used studio musicians to record it. Stone's message was simple, to stand "for the things you know are right," his words ...

Sly and the Family Stone achieved so much and evolved so quickly from 1967-69, it’s no wonder that Stone felt compelled to craft a song that served as both a meta victory lap and farewell to his ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

Sly Stone in April 1972. (Associated Press file) But by the early 1970s, he was ravaged by drug addiction, kicking off a cycle of spirals and comebacks and sporadic, desultory live appearances.

Sly and the Family Stone released their first album, A Whole New Thing, in 1967. Several essential records—including Dance to the Music, the 1971 masterpiece There’s a Riot Goin’ On, and Fresh ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s best songs sound as fresh as the day they were released. Still, his name and his music are more likely to be remembered than the names and music of so many of his ...

Funk master and iconic music innovator Sly Stone, whose songs drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking influential albums but also a slide into drug addiction, has died ...

Sly And The Family Stone made memorable appearances in both. First came the Harlem Cultural Festival in June 1969, an event later commemorated in thrilling fashion by the 2021 documentary Summer ...

Sly and the Family Stone's last great song, "If You Want Me to Stay," has another of those in-the-bones bass lines and one of Sly's rawest vocal performances (the way he sings "get this message ...

Something of a thesis statement for the Family Stone, “Family Affair” — which became the band’s third and final No. 1 on the Hot 100 in late 1971 — is a more laid-back groove, with Sly ...