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Sly Stone’s 10 Essential Songs: From ‘Dance to the Music’ to ‘Everyday People’ to ‘Family Affair,’ and More. Jem Aswad. Mon, June 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM UTC. 6 min read.
A timeline of Sly Stone’s career in 10 essential songs. Sly Stone, center, performs with Freddie Stone, left, and Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. (CBS via Getty Images) ...
Sly Stone, who died Monday at 82, was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century — here are ... The essential songs that may be obvious — nearly all are from ...
A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...
The influence of Sly & the Family Stone’s sound is so vast, it’s hard to measure. It’s in music from Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads and Prince, and many more: Public Enemy ...
Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...
Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...
Sly and the Family Stone’s last great song, “If You Want Me to Stay,” has another of those in-the-bones bass lines and one of Sly’s rawest vocal performances (the way he sings “get this ...
The influence of Sly & the Family Stone’s sound is so vast, it’s hard to measure. It’s in music from Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads and Prince, and many more: Public Enemy ...
Sly and the Family Stone frontman Sly Stone has died, his family said in a statement Monday. He was 82. His family said Stone, whose real name was Sylvester Stewart, had chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
Sly and the Family Stone’s last great song, “If You Want Me to Stay,” has another of those in-the-bones bass lines and one of Sly’s rawest vocal performances (the way he sings “get this ...