The day before that gig, The Art of the Deal was published by a New York-based businessman called Donald Trump. Chuck D and Trump grew up just 20 miles apart and are 14 years apart in age.

Sly Stone was a visionary musician who became trapped by his liberated lifestyle. The leader of Sly and the Family Stone, who has died at his home in Los Angeles aged 82, devised a utopian ...

Sly Stone, a funk-rock star who led the group Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his family said in a statement. A statement said he had suffered a "prolonged battle" with the ...

Sly Stone, a funk-rock star who led the group Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his family said in a statement. A statement said he had suffered a "prolonged battle" with the ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became ...

Sly Stone, one of the pioneers of funk music, has died aged 82, his family have said. As front man for his band Sly And The Family Stone, the musician fused soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel to ...

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose path-finding, psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late ’60s and early ’70s, has died. He was 82. “After a prolonged battle with COPD ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson directed the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius that premiered at Sundance this year, and now he has penned a moving tribute to his subject, ...

Sly and the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 1993 and honored in 2006 at the Grammy Awards, but Sly released just one album after the early ’80s, “I’m Back!

Reclusive funk legend Sly Stone wasn't always in his daughter Phunne's life, but they rebuilt their relationship and later, worked on music together. Show more Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk ...

But as with much of Sly’s work, it’s the sum of its parts that makes “Family Affair” such an enduring cut more than 50 years later. — D.R.