Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 captures Sly and the Family Stone just before they released their debut album ...

"In terms of impact and the kind of shift they created, there isn’t a greater American band," said Vernon Reid of Sly and the Family Stone.

Ahead of a gig at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, the 80-year-old singer and songwriter looks back at some of his signature ...

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

Sly and the Family Stone (1968) Stone and his band achieved artistic success and wild popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with songs such as “Everyday People,” “Hot Fun in the ...

That callout, “I am everyday people,” was like the hippie national anthem. Other Sly songs are equally memorable. “Stand” was a great song about fighting injustice: ...

Sly and the Family Stone turned out such classics as “Dance to the Music,” “I Want to Take You Higher,” “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” “Everybody Is a Star” and “Everyday People.” That ...

Stone’s style encouraged people to make room for the colorful, chaotic, bedazzled multitudes. And if only for the briefest moment, his effort was proved worthwhile.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

Sly Stone and two of his siblings were members of Sly and the Family Stone, which was pivotal to funk music.

Arrested Development — “People Everyday” (1992) Sample: Sly And The Family Stone — “ Everyday People ” Speech and company flipped Sly’s classic and made one of their very own.