Original Sly and the Family Stone founding members Jerry Martini and Greg Errico, along with Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson’s daughter, Phunne Stone, kicked off the Everyday People tour in Las Vegas ...
A Sly Stone tribute concert that benefits children is being held in San Francisco this weekend. Stone was a Bay Area native, who recently passed. The funk pioneer wrote, produced and performed music ...
Buying a ticket to a Sly Stone concert these days can be like betting on the lottery. It's a toss-up whether he'll actually show. And if he does, what exactly do you get? This year, he's already ...
One day in 2009, Alec Palao found himself inside a Target in Los Angeles, buying a sweatsuit off a sale rack. He brought it back to a motel near LAX airport and gave it to Sly Stone, who was living ...
Two of the most original and tortured talents passed away this week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, who died on Monday and Wednesday, respectively. Both were unrivaled geniuses in their corresponding ...
Sly & The Family Stone got the coveted call to be featured performers on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1968. Following Sly’s invocation, “Don’t hate the Black, don’t hate the White / If you get bit ...
Very few acts delivered the kind of musical versatility of Sly And The Family Stone. With Sly Stone at the helm as the chief songwriter and musical maestro, the band could change up their approach ...
We throw out too easily words such as superstar, mythical, legendary. What requires super beyond star, already explosive and bright? What myths are told? How have they created legend? P.S: If you have ...
The glossy silver foil finish inside and outside the covers of The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 to some degree belies the sound quality of the music inside. But the assiduous effort ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...