Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.

a little rock and a touch of psychedelia — as well as a vision of community and brotherhood that stood out in a period of political separatism. Behind it all was Sly Stone, the visionary who ...

(aka The Burden of Black Genius), a film that bursts with the beats, melodies, and virtuosic creativity of Sylvester Stewart, stage name Sly Stone ... and social and political upheavals of ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... from his remarkable yet erratic life in music, Sly Stone admits he occasionally had to depend on the recollections ...

A trailer for the highly-anticipated movie about pioneering Sly & The Family Stone founder Sly Stone has been released. Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) was directed by Roots drummer ...

The "Untitled Sly Stone Project" is the follow-up film from Thompson, who won an Oscar in March for his directorial debut, "Summer of Soul." Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is following up his ...

The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn’t just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made “culture-changing hits,” in the words of no less a figure than record mogul ...

André 3000, D'Angelo, Chaka Khan, and more speak on the 'Black genius' that is Sly Stone. Questlove rounded up an A-list group of Black musical talent to praise Sly Stone in his new Hulu ...

While summoning stories from his remarkable yet erratic life in music, Sly ... Stone's music took a darker and more cynical turn as drugs took hold and the dream of the '60s devolved into ...