Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...

A child of the Sixties like myself may treat Sly Stone's death with more sorrow than someone gone gaga over contemporary heartthrob Taylor Swift.

Public Enemy's Chuck D grew up listening to the music made by Sly Stone, who died Monday at age 82 - and that music became a ...

Saying farewell to Sly Stone, whose avant-funk vision changed the world and influenced generations of musicians ...

He’ll be remembered as an artist who changed the way people make and listen to music, and who did that twice. Sly was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943 and grew up in Vallejo, ...

One of the key figures in American music in the late ’60s got his professional start in the Bay Area. These are some of the ...

Mixing styles at a critical moment in American history, Sly Stone helped create the musical world we live in today.

Behind it all was Sly Stone, the visionary who died Monday at 82 after a long battle with the lung disease COPD. He wrote, ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over that half-decade helped map the future. The singer, songwriter, producer and ...

The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak of its powers, had implored its 400,000 rapt attendees to take it higher ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...

Sly Stone and his band synthesised disparate strands of American popular music, tracking the musical and social shifts as the 1960s wore into the 1970s.