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 ...

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 ...

Led by Sly Stone, with his leather jumpsuits and goggle shades, mile-wide grin and mile-high Afro, the band dazzled in 1969 at the Woodstock festival and set a new pace on the radio. “Everyday ...

Thanks to the group’s impact, Sly & the Family Stone were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993; the year before, Arrested Development’s “People Everyday,” which interpolates ...

Sly and the Family Stone have released a new animated video for their 1968 classic, “Everyday People.” The clip opens with a simple message: “Now more than ever, the message of this song ...

Questlove’s ‘Sly Lives!’ Shows How Black Artists Are Both Geniuses and Everyday People Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a ...

NPR also has a first listen of his cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s 1968 classic anthem for equality “Everyday People,” which Buckley has pared down considerably.

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, ...

Founded in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations ...