Sly Stone was a musical alchemist, combining soul, funk, and psychedelic rock with elements of gospel, jazz, and Latin music to create the new sound of the 1960s. With his prodigious Afro and platform ...
Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still plenty of cover bands, of course, but the Beatles and especially punk helped move it from being the ...
Sly Stone, one of the most influential and groundbreaking musicians of the late Sixties and early Seventies who smashed the boundaries of rock, pop, funk, and soul, died today. He was 82. The cause of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...
Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony opened with a bang, as an incredible collection of rock and funk artists joined forces to honor Sly Stone. The collection of musicians onstage was ...
From "Dance to the Music" to "Hot Fun in the Summertime," these six iconic Sly and the Family Stone tracks still pack a punch and remind us why their sound changed music forever. Sly Stone, the ...