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Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...
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Sly Stone died on Monday, June 9 at the age of 82, his family announced. The musician was best known as the leader of Sly and ...
The music industry is mourning Sly Stone. After news broke that the groundbreaking musician had died at 82 on Monday, stars from Questlove and Chuck D to Clairo and Fatboy Slim shared tributes for the ...
Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025, at his home in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. He was 82. According to his representatives ...
The journalist who got the late funk legend to break his decades-long silence pays tribute to his indelible message of hope — needed now more than ever.
Sly Lives!' filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson pays tribute to his documentary subject Sly Stone, who died June 9: "Dared To Be Simple In Most Complex Ways" ...
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the ...
There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. "Both of them ...
"From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of my soul," 'Sly Lives!' director Questlove also ...
Sly Stone, a Grammy winner whose pioneering funk-rock group Sly and the Family Stone produced groundbreaking albums and singles died June 9. He was 82.