Sly and the Family Stone (1968) Stone and his band achieved artistic success and wild popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with songs such as “Everyday People,” “Hot Fun in the ...

Rickey Vincent is a music historian who's made a career out of studying funk and soul music – including the work of Sly Stone. Rickey teaches at UC Berkeley and he's also a DJ on KPFA up in the ...

Sly Stone was more than a legendary musician. He made moments — moments of joy, rebellion, connection and radical love. With his band, Sly and the Family Stone, he created a sound big enough to hold ...

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own music. “He was always trying to mix up boundaries,” says Sheffield.

Sly and the Family Stone perform "Dance to the Music": A string of hits followed in quick succession, including "Everyday People," "Family Affair," and "Hot Fun in the Summertime." ...

Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 captures Sly and the Family Stone just before they released their debut album ...

Sly Stone was a musical alchemist, combining soul, funk, and psychedelic rock with elements of gospel, jazz, and Latin music to create the new sound of the 1960s. With his prodigious Afro and ...

Just a year later, "Dance to the Music" launched Sly and the Family Stone – the first major group to include Black and White men and women – into super-stardom.

It was a charming moment.” Palao spent time with Stone again in 2013, interviewing him while working on the Light in the Attic compilation I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70.

The concert took place on Easter morning, March 26, 1967, towards the end of Sly and the Family Stone’s residency at the Bay Area music venue Winchester Cathedral (they served as the house band ...

Sly and the Family Stone deliver a blistering cover of Otis Redding's 'I Can't Turn You Loose' in the latest track from a rare 1967 live album.

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.