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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few artists left so large an imprint on music history in so short a burst of activity like Sly Stone, who died on Monday at 82. At his creative peak as the mastermind of Sly and the Family Stone, the ...

For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the direction of popular music in a way that few artists had before him and ...

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 ...

His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding. Sly Stone, 1969. If you want to see my aunt Pam stop what she’s doing and dance, play Sly and the ...

Very few acts delivered the kind of musical versatility of Sly And The Family Stone. With Sly Stone at the helm as the chief songwriter and musical maestro, the band could change up their approach ...