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 ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...

It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul and pop.

In a famed 1970 Rolling Stone profile ... their hit song era and into the cynicism of that early Seventies moment. The band would bear it together, until they couldn’t anymore. Sly and the ...

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

Sly Stone wasn’t only among the first songwriter ... and “There’s a Riot Goin’ on.” The essential songs that may be obvious — nearly all are from 1969, and many come from the stellar ...

But it’s the only song the band ever covered on record, showing how boundless the Family Stone could be. With Sly’s sister Rose on lead vocals, the crew pulls a reverse Pat Boone, adding Black ...

Sly Stone's legacy will live on in the revolutionary ... chart-topping entries on the Hot 100, “Sing a Simple Song” may not be as essential to an understanding of their place in music history ...