“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 ...

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 ...

For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the direction of popular music in a way that few artists had before him and ...

Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers struggled to realize in their own lives. By Jon Pareles In a cruel ...

Here's a thought exercise: Try to imagine what your record collection would look like if Sly Stone had never lived. It is frankly impossible to imagine the last 55 years of popular music without Sly ...

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 ...

It’s a real American moment out there: battle lines drawn, tear gas drifting, charity and gentleness on their heels. Turn inward, inside ourselves, and it looks even worse, the mind’s landscape pocked ...

Sly and the Family Stone in 1968. Stone, stoic in the center, wore a characteristic mix of garments that seemed nonsensical but, with his eye, just worked together. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ...

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 ...

"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 ...