Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over ...

It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making ... Stone’s songs represent a crucial part of hip-hop’s DNA. Here, in the order they were released, are 10 of his essential recordings. ‘Dance to the Music ...

But it’s the only song the band ever covered on record, showing how boundless the Family Stone could be. With Sly’s sister Rose on lead vocals, the crew pulls a reverse Pat Boone, adding Black ...

Image What always sounded casual in Sly Stone ... essential albums, from “A Whole New Thing” in 1967 to “Fresh” in 1973, its members all toss around lead vocals like a beanbag. Their songs ...

Some of these became radio hits; all would cement themselves as essential ... the Family Stone’s first No. 1 hit and might still be Sly’s most enduring recording, a song that encapsulates ...

Junior Mance does an instrumental version that begins with an essential hip-hop breakbeat ... fighting the devil and then list a bunch of his own song titles? I can't pretend to understand Sly Stone's ...