Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson directed the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius that premiered at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the ...

Sly & The Family Stone got the coveted call to be featured performers on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1968. Following Sly’s invocation, “Don’t hate the Black, don’t hate the White / If you get bit ...

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 world of entertainment is mourning the loss of yet another star, as the legendary musician and funk pioneer Sly Stone passed away this Monday. His family has confirmed the news of his demise ...

FILE - Rock star Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone appears in April 1972. (AP Photo, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the ...

Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jane Pauley is anchor of the award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning." A respected broadcast journalist for more than 50 years, Pauley is the recipient of multiple Emmys, the Walter Cronkite Award for ...