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.

The Sly & the Family Stone leader has died at 82. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction. By Rob Tannenbaum In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the ...

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Sly Stone in 1973. Though he eventually receded from center stage, his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sly Stone, one of the most influential and groundbreaking musicians of the late Sixties and early Seventies who smashed the boundaries of rock, pop, funk, and soul, died today. He was 82. The cause of ...

Thank you for the party, but Sly could never stay. Sly Stone was always the ultimate mystery man of American music, a visionary genius who transformed the world with some of the most innovative sounds ...

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In Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s tremendous Oscar-winning documentary, Summer of Soul (…OR, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), the musician-turned-filmmaker covered the incredible yet ...

NEW YORK — 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,” ...

Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop and funk music innovator, has died. He was 82. "It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly and the ...