Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82 Funk music pioneer Sly Stone, front man of the group Sly and the Family Stone, ...

Funk, rock and soul maverick Sly Stone died at 82 on Monday (June 9). According to a statement from his family, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's passing came after "a prolonged battle with COPD and ...

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Few hit singles have managed to represent what the act that recorded it was all about as well as “Everyday People” by Sly And The Family Stone. The 1968 hit not only summed up the group’s ethos, but ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Funk musician Sly Stone died last night at the age of 82, after a long struggle with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and other underlying health issues, according ...

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 ...

The final of the group's three No. 1 singles was a brilliant but bittersweet success. By Andrew Unterberger Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased ...

“This is like an audition, you know; just play some stuff and let me hear you. Just do what you want and we’ll join in and see how you sound. Know what I mean?”-Sly Stone, 1970 “Sheeeeit…Sly raps ...

June 9 (UPI) --Sly Stone, the legendary Sixties and Seventies funk singer, songwriter and producer of the band, Sly and the Family Stone, died Monday at the age of 82. Stone, whose hits included ...

Standing at the forefront of funk music, Sly Stone helped push the genre into the spotlight as he fused hints of soul and rock. While spending several decades in the music industry, the singer watched ...

Sly Stone, the visionary behind the Sly and the Family Stone band, died Monday at age 82, according to a statement from his family. Born Sylvester Stewart, Stone died peacefully in Los Angeles after a ...

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,” ...