Director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Oscar-winning producer Joseph Patel discuss "Sly Lives!" Six New States Now Able to ...

The drummer and record producer discusses his documentary on Sly Stewart of Sly and the Family Stone, exploring the rise, ...

Sly made three whole music videos in 1969. The purpose of a music video was basically — if you were unable to travel to Europe, you would just perform a generic performance video that they would ...

Questlove directed 2025’s Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), which reexamined Stone’s legacy and focused on how his influence continues to impact popular music today.

Sly Stone, the visionary frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died at age 82 on June 9, 2025, after a groundbreaking career that revolutionized popular music with its blend of funk, soul, rock ...

Sly Stone, the groundbreaking musician who revolutionized popular music with his psychedelic funk fusion and led the influential band Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at age 82 after a ...

Sly Stone was born Sylvester Stewart on March 15, 1943 in Denton, Texas. His parents moved the family to San Francisco's suburbs, and built ties with the Church of God in Christ.

Sly and the Family Stone released its first album in October 1967, "A Whole New Thing," but it received only limited attention. Just a month later, the band would be launched into the stratosphere ...

Sly and the Family Stone was formed in 1966, and the band quickly made its way up the charts in the winter of 1968 with "Dance To the Music," which was later chosen for the Grammy Hall Of Fame and ...

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died two days apart, both 82 years old, geniuses of vastly different musical persuasions whose periods of greatest flourishing melded into one another.

(CNN) — Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight ...