Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let us begin with gratitude. Thank you, Sly Stone, for being so generous with your music before your death on Monday at the age of ...

Sly Stone, a funk pioneer whose influence and impact as leader of the musical group Sly and the Family Stone was as enduring as his career was brief, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82.

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 ...

The journalist who got the late funk legend to break his decades-long silence pays tribute to his indelible message of hope — needed now more than ever. By David Kamp David Kamp | The Hollywood ...