While his talent shone brightly, Sly faced the pressure of living up to those expectations, creating a constant conflict ...

"Sly's innovative spirit foreshadowed much of what would come in hip-hop," Questlove writes in a new essay for Rolling Stone - Credit: Ron Pownall/Getty Images Sly Stone’s journey highlights the ...

The drummer-producer and documentarian explains why that theme was central to his film on the funk band Sly and the Family ...

F unk 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 to a stat ...

'The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967' shows what we've lost.

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...

The electrifying musician, songwriter and showman transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s with Sly and the Family ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week ...

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, has died at 82. His band Sly and the Family Stone combined psychedelic rock, doo-wop, gospel and surf to create a new sound.