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Dionne Warwick, Jamie Foxx Among Those Paying Tribute to Sly Stone: “May He Rest in Paradise”
"From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of my soul," 'Sly Lives!' director Questlove also ...
Sly Stone channeled multitudes; they were all gloriously American
Stone didn’t represent a niche or a subculture. He was every culture.
Sly Stone and the Sound of an America That Couldn’t Last
The influential musician, who died on Monday at 82, forged harmony — musical and otherwise — that he wasn’t able to hold ...
Chuck D Explains How Sly Stone Influenced Public Enemy
Public Enemy's Chuck D grew up listening to the music made by Sly Stone, who died Monday at age 82 - and that music became a ...
The musical world that Sly Stone made for us still spins
Not even in a world this big, bad, beautiful, wonderful, horrible, overstimulated and hyperbolic can we begin to overstate ...
Sly Stone’s Fabulous Style
In 1974, decades before Ye, then known as Kanye West, packed Madison Square Garden for a twin album-fashion spectacular, Sly ...
‘He Would Be in the Top 10': Ben Fong-Torres on Writing Sly Stone's Rolling Stone Cover Story
One of the star Rolling Stone writer's first cover stories was following Stone around Los Angeles at the height of his ...
Sly Stone’s 10 essential tracks, from ‘Dance to the Music’ to ‘Family Affair’
It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul ...