Sly Stone, funk pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, ... Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), from Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson.

As pointed out in endless histories of rock and roll, hip-hop, pop, and country (including Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! [aka The Burden of Black Genius]), when Stone started ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, who revolutionized music with integrated band Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at 82 from COPD.

The dystopian scene was a far cry from a Sly concert the year before: Woodstock in ‘69, where the band, operating at the peak ...

Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone, and an influential figure in funk, soul and rock, has ...

Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025, at his home in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. He was 82. According to his representatives ...

Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

As the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone changed the face of popular music in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

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,” ...

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.