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 ...

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

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

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own ...

Mick Ralphs was the guitarist and founding member of two of the all-time great British rock bands — Mott The Hoople and Bad ...

How psychedelic funk band Sly and the Family Stone cut through the bigotry of 1960s America with an integrated lineup and an ...

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

Sly Stone was more than a legendary musician. He made moments — moments of joy, rebellion, connection and radical love. With ...

There are a host of images of Sly Stone in which his onstage style serves as a celebration of the freedom and power that were ...

Last week, two giants of US popular music passed away. Beach Boys legend, composer/songwriter Brian Wilson, and funk pioneer ...

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