Though the catalog is lucrative, the music legend sold off a large portion of his music intellectual property rights long ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. "Both of them ...

Sly Stone died on Monday, June 9 at the age of 82, his family announced. The musician was best known as the leader of Sly and ...

Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...

And now SLY STONE. The new leader." So proclaimed an ad that ran in Billboard in April of 1969, essentially proclaiming ...

A.‍ ‍‍Sly ‍was ‍given ‍a ‍Jewish ‍star ‍by ‍Rabbi ‍Shlomo ‍Carlbach, ‍when ‍they ‍met ‍in ‍Haight-Ashbury ‍in ‍1967. ‍Sly ...

Archivist Alec Palao talks about his time spent with the late legend, and how the rare live album The First Family: Live at ...

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within ...

"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the ...

Sampling Sly was like a right of passage for many MCs in the late ’80s and early ’90s. I grew up learning about Sly’s music ...

Stone, an eccentric whose songs of uplift were tempered by darker themes of struggle and disillusionment, had a fall as steep ...