The boundary-breaking, fashion-forward leader of Sly & the Family Stone, who has died at age 82, made an indelible impact on ...

The influence of Sly & the Family Stone’s sound is so vast, it’s hard to measure. It’s in music from Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads and Prince, and many more: Public Enemy ...

A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, and from the search for transcendence to the broken idealism in which the ...

Sly Stone, the legendary bandleader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. These five songs show the power of his influence. ... the impact he had on music has never dulled.

His family moved from Texas to the California Bay Area when Stone was a young boy in the mid 1950s. In the early ‘60s, Sly worked as a DJ on Oakland’s KSOL, which specialized in the growing ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader has died at 82. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction. ... Here are 15 songs that help explain his musical impact.

Sly Stone's biggest songs tell us everything about his impact on modern music and culture. By Dan Condon. Double J. Topic: Arts, Culture and Entertainment ...

Very few artists have changed the course of popular music, and far fewer have managed to do so twice within a five-year span. Sylvester Stewart, better known to the world as Sly Stone, is in the ...