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, ...

From “Everyday People” to “Family Affair,” these songs capture the joy, protest and spirit that made Sly & The Family Stone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He shifted the dial on pop culture: Sly Stone (third from left) and the Family Stone in 1970 - Redferns Sly Stone has died, aged ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the ...

On June 9, the music industry lost an incredible talent. Sly Stone, leader of the funk band Sly and the Family Stone passed away due to complications with COPD and other health issues at age 82. The ...

Sly's former band is considered one of the most influential of all time Sly Stone has died. He was 82 The rocker was known for Sly and the Family Stone hits like "Dance to the Music" and "Everyday ...

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,” “Stand!” and ...

Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Funk musician Sly Stone died last night at the age of 82, after a long struggle with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and other underlying health issues, according ...

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