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. During ...

One day in 2009, Alec Palao found himself inside a Target in Los Angeles, buying a sweatsuit off a sale rack. He brought it back to a motel near LAX airport and gave it to Sly Stone, who was living ...

Sly And The Family Stone performs at White City Stadium, London in 1973. Credit - Michael Putland--Getty Images Fifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the ...

Just a week before Sly Stone‘s death last month, it was announced that the earliest known Sly and The Family Stone recording would be released as a live album titled The First Family: Live at ...

MOJO traces the dazzling rise and tragic fall of Sly Stone, and hears how he still had music left to share before his death earlier this year.

Sly Stone, the funk-music pioneer known as the lead member of Sly and the Family Stone, is dead at 82. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, Sly Stone of Sly ...

NEW YORK — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” ...

Two of the most original and tortured talents passed away this week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, who died on Monday and Wednesday, respectively. Both were unrivaled geniuses in their corresponding ...

FILE - Rock star Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone appears in April 1972. (AP Photo, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the ...

Fifty-five summers ago, a riot broke out in Chicago’s Grant Park, where Sly and the Family Stone was booked to play a concert. Sly was on en route, but the crowd, fearing that the erratic rock star ...