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Sly Stone, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame with the band Sly and the Family Stone, has died. He was 82. “After a prolonged battle with COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and other ...

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 ...

Sly Stone was more than a legendary musician. He made moments — moments of joy, rebellion, connection and radical love. With his band, Sly and the Family Stone, he created a sound big enough to hold ...

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 expected more ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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