Questlove's new documentary 'Sly Lives' on Hulu explores the life of Sly Stone, a legendary music producer and lead singer of ...
Music historian and documentarian Questlove outlines subversive messages in Sly Stone and Michael Jackson hits you probably missed.
who break down what's working and why in Sly and the Family Stone's biggest hit songs. The worst thing that you can say about "Sly Lives!" is that you might wish it were longer, especially when ...
Ostensibly it covers the career of Sly Stone, the prodigious musician who, during the late '60s and '70s, generated some of ...
One can’t overstate just how influential Sly and the Family Stone were for the development ... s record collection not having a copy. These songs—“Dance to the Music,” “Everyday People ...
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a question that's even more interesting.
Both gigs were a prequel for what came when Sly formed the Family Stone in early 1967 – transgressed boundaries, blurred distinctions between black and white pop, social message songs with ...
(aka The Burden of Black Genius), Questlove delves into the genius and torments of Sly Stone — and uses that story as window into many other artists’ lives, including interviewees D’Angelo ...
In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become ...
But one performance in the documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial band Sly and the Family Stone in all its glorious, psychedelic soul ...
Credit: Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria Shriver showed — in an old interview that’s central to his film — by trying to get Sly Stone to acknowledge he ...