Continuing our salute to the legendary Sly Stone this week, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re turning the clock all the way ...
Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone that finds wider import in what it meant ...
"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." 50 Years Ago: Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family ...
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 and the Family Stone performing at the Woodstock Festival ... turns the lens back at the festival's audience. These are the songs that filled their three days of peace, love and music.
Ostensibly it covers the career of Sly Stone, the prodigious musician who, during the late '60s and '70s, generated some of ...
Questlove's new documentary 'Sly Lives' on Hulu explores the life of Sly Stone, a legendary music producer and lead singer of Sly and the Family Stone.
Stone’s legacy is different. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone ...
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 ...
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 ...
“I hate to say it,” the rhythm and blues singer D’Angelo ventures toward the end of Questlove’s new documentary “Sly Lives!” (streaming on Hulu), “but these White rock-and-rollers ...