In the prime of Sly & the Family Stone, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts as well as a fount of remarkable singles including “Everyday People” and “Hot Fun in the ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

The tragic truth is that Sly Stone's recording career was only a very short part of his life. The singer and bandleader, who died this week at 82, was a groundbreaking figure in popular culture of the ...

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 ...