Sly Stone died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music. If you ...

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 ...

The greatest artists take from all that came before them and create a language all their own. And during his transcendent career, that’s exactly what Sly Stone did. That word — genius — has appeared ...

Revolutionary funk musician Sly Stone, whose Sly and the Family Stone redefined popular music in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, has passed away at age 82. Born Sylvester Stewart, Sly Stone had been in ...