The great rock-funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone didn't just make hits in the 1960s and ‘70s, they made "culture-changing hits," in the words of no less a figure than record mogul Clive Davis.

Joseph Patel and 'SLY LIVES!' director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for ...

The story of Sly Stone is, at least in the music world, beyond well known. A teenage musical prodigy, Sylvester "Sly" Stewart was a Bay Area radio disc jockey and acclaimed record producer formed ...

Stone, now 70, disappeared from the public eye for decades ... Los Angeles area), and asked for some pad thai, so we watched Sly Stone eat leftover pad thai," he says with a laugh.

The lead singer and creative force behind the legendary band Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone deserves the celebratory documentary treatment, and the new Hulu movie “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of ...

Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly ... racially integrated 1960s and ‘70s funk band. After more than 30 years out of the spotlight — and another 10 in which his personal and ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the Family Stone, effectively ruled over American popular music, but by the middle part of the 1970s, Sly had descended into a nightmarish ...

Blazing a trail for the funkadelic/glam rock ’70s with metallic, tasseled jumpsuits that often literally tied themselves up with a bow in the middle, Sly Stone is long overdue for a film about ...

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the overwhelming pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. Originally broadcast Feb. 10, 2025.

(aka The Burden of Black Genius), the musician and Oscar-winning filmmaker compared Sly Stone's fall from fame in the '70s to the pressures Black artists often face. Questlove (real name ...