Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone died Monday (June 9) at age 82, and the music community is grieving the groundbreaking funk pioneer. Questlove, who directed the new documentary Sly Lives (aka ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, who directed the new documentary “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” has shared a remembrance of the subject of his film, Sly Stone. The 82 year-old died of COPD ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson directed the Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius that premiered at Sundance this year, and now he has penned a moving tribute to his subject, ...

Sly Stone, one of the most influential and groundbreaking musicians of the late Sixties and early Seventies who smashed the boundaries of rock, pop, funk, and soul, died today. He was 82. The cause of ...

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 to a statement released by his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...

Sly’s time on top was brief, roughly from 1968-1971, but profound. No band better captured the gravity-defying euphoria of the Woodstock era or more bravely addressed the crash which followed. From ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...