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 ...

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

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

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.

Sly Stone died on Monday, June 9 at the age of 82, his family announced. The musician was best known as the leader of Sly and ...

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

Both Wilson and Stone were true originals and are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Brian Wilson has been called a musical ...

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

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.

Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News. Stone died peacefully after a prolonged ...

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,” ...