Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary. So “Sly Lives!” is a few different things at ...

Sly Stone: a rare conversation and his classic hits with guest host Chris Douridas on the Memorial Day edition of Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am. Sly Stone: a rare conversation and his classic ...

Sly Stone, leader of the self-named genre-bending funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. A statement released by his family shared, “After a prolonged battle with COPD and other ...

Public Enemy‘s Chuck D grew up listening to the music of Sly Stone, who died Monday at age 82 — and that music became a major influence on his own work with Public Enemy and beyond. He reflected on ...

Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025. “I didn’t realize how important it was to tell his story while he was still alive,” Patel says. At Stone’s private funeral, Patel learned from the musician’s ...

Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

When Sly Stone died in June at the age of 82, one of those mourning him at his funeral was in a unique position to appreciate the full extent of his musical gifts, as a brilliant talent himself – the ...

Where were you when you heard the news about Sly Stone’s June 9 death from COPD and, according to his family, “other underlying health issues”? I was on my way to a doctor’s appointment, and I lied ...

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,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funk music pioneer Sly Stone has died "after a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues," his family said ...

FILE - Rock star Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone appears in April 1972. (AP Photo, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the ...