Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

Every time you turn on the radio, you are hearing Sly Stone. That’s not literal. It’s not just a poetic exaggeration, either. Whether your bag is rock or rap or soul or pop, the artists you love ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the ...

Sylvester Stewart was born in Texas in 1943 but spent most of his life in California, where he became one of the icons of San ...

Sly Stone, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame with the band Sly and the Family Stone, has died. He was 82. “After a prolonged battle with COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and other ...

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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 ...

In the fall of 1971, Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, fans expected more ...

Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News. Stone died peacefully after a prolonged ...

Few artists left so large an imprint on music history in so short a burst of activity like Sly Stone, who died on Monday at 82. At his creative peak as the mastermind of Sly and the Family Stone, the ...