A Sly Stone tribute concert that benefits children is being held in San Francisco this weekend. Stone was a Bay Area native, who recently passed. The funk pioneer wrote, produced and performed music ...

Buying a ticket to a Sly Stone concert these days can be like betting on the lottery. It's a toss-up whether he'll actually show. And if he does, what exactly do you get? This year, he's already ...

Two of the most original and tortured talents passed away this week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, who died on Monday and Wednesday, respectively. Both were unrivaled geniuses in their corresponding ...

Sly & The Family Stone got the coveted call to be featured performers on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1968. Following Sly’s invocation, “Don’t hate the Black, don’t hate the White / If you get bit ...

Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967 represents the first-ever release of a previously unheard recording of a 26 March 1967 Sly and the Family Stone live show. It is the earliest document of Sly and Co.

The death of Sly Stone, real name Sylvester Stewart, on June 9 triggered memories of the crazy, off-the-wall show he and his band the Family Stone played on Sunday, July 11, 1971, in Hunlock’s Creek.

Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

We throw out too easily words such as superstar, mythical, legendary. What requires super beyond star, already explosive and bright? What myths are told? How have they created legend? P.S: If you have ...

“Elvis Presley. Bob Dylan. Lennon & McCartney. And now SLY STONE. The new leader.” So proclaimed an ad that ran in Billboard in April of 1969, essentially proclaiming that it was Sly Stone’s turn to ...

One day in 2009, Alec Palao found himself inside a Target in Los Angeles, buying a sweatsuit off a sale rack. He brought it back to a motel near LAX airport and gave it to Sly Stone, who was living ...

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,” ...