"I constructed a little more of it," said David Paich, "and it was one of the first songs I brought down when we were testing out singers." ...

"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 Sly Stone’s journey highlights the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Questlove, who helmed Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), has paid tribute to the documentary’s subject, Sly Stone, hours ...

Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone passed away in June but his soulful funky music and desire for world unity resurrected Saturday night inside Bryant Park. Thousands packed the popular NYC space for a ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

There are few — if any — American rock bands that have had a more profound impact over time than Sly and the Family Stone. To start with, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees served up an impressive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Sly Stone, one of the most innovative musicians in recorded music ...

Sly Stone, the influential, eccentric and preternaturally rhythmic singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose run of hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s with his band the Family ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.Both were musical geniuses who paid a high price ...