Meet the Editorial Board NEWSLETTERS Sly Stone and the sound of Black freedom By Renée Graham Globe Columnist,Updated June 12, 2025, 1:55 p.m. Sly Stone in a 1974 performance Getty Images ...

Sly and the Family Stone rip through a rendition of Otis Redding’s “I Can’t Turn You Loose” in the latest offering from the upcoming album, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967.

Sly & the Family Stone on “The Midnight Special.” Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images “He challenged people’s perception of normalcy,” Mr. Williams wrote in The New York Times.

Sly Stone, musician and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at age 82 after battling lung disease. According to a statement posted by his family on social media, Stone had long ...

The world lost a music icon on Monday, June 9, with the passing of Sly Stone, frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, at his home in Los Angeles. The 82-year-old musician, who showed an interest in ...

Nile Rodgers, the legendary producer and Chic bandleader, worshiped Sly Stone long before he became friends with the funk pioneer, who passed away at 82 on Monday, June 9.

Sly shot to prominence in the music industry in 1968 alongside his band Sly and the Family Stone with their hit “Dance to the Music,” which landed in the top 10 on both the pop and R&B charts.

Sly Stone, the legendary multi-instrumentalist who led the groundbreaking hit-machine Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at 82, his family reported, “after a prolonged battle with COPD and ...

But in 1983, following a struggle with drug and alcohol abuse, Sly Stone went into permanent retirement, and the band disbanded. For decades, music lovers wondered what happened to Sly.

That’s because Sly Stone created music without boundaries or regard for the constraints of genre. It was Black music, because Sly was Black, and that’s the only kind of music we can make.

Sly Stone Born Sylvester Stewart in 1943, he became "Sly" when a classmate misspelled his first name on the chalkboard. A gifted musician, by four he was singing on stage.

3 min read "Sly's innovative spirit foreshadowed much of what would come in hip-hop," Questlove writes in a new essay for Rolling Stone - Credit: Ron Pownall/Getty Images ...