While screening the documentary “Sly Lives!,” producer Joseph Patel told Variety’s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson that the filmmakers were not sure if their subject, Sly Stone, would ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Musically, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone seemingly had little in common. Wilson was the dominant ...

June 13 (UPI) --In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone's "There's a Riot Goin' On" landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band's mainstream success, fans ...

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,” ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.Both were musical geniuses who paid a high price ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering funk musician and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has passed away at the age of 82 in Los Angeles. Born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Stone was known for creating a unique ...

Sly Stone, the legendary multi-instrumentalist who led the groundbreaking hit-machine Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at 82, his family reported, “after a prolonged battle with COPD and other ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the ...

It wasn’t just about the fringe and the bling. Sty Stone at his Madison Square Garden wedding in 1974. Credit...Oscar Abolafia/TPLP, via Getty Images Supported by By Vanessa Friedman In 1974, decades ...