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 ...

Sly and the Family Stone's membership included two of his actual siblings, and they released massive hits like "Dance to the Music,” "Everyday People" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” ...

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!" ...

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 Stone, seen here performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, presents the trappings and excesses of stardom dispassionately, despite the heavy toll they took on him and the band.

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 ...