Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone died Monday (June 9) at age 82, and the music community is grieving the groundbreaking funk pioneer. Questlove, who directed the new documentary Sly Lives (aka ...

(WDHN)–Sly Stone, leader of the Sly and the Family Stone died today at the age of 82. The rock, funk, and soul music pioneer broke barriers when he formed the racially mixed- male and female band in ...

Unsurprisingly, following his death, fans flocked to streaming services to revisit Sly & the Family Stone’s most beloved works. His catalog combined for 2.5 million U.S. on-demand audio streams over ...

"From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of my soul," 'Sly Lives!' director Questlove also shared on Instagram. By McKinley Franklin Hollywood is paying tribute to ...

MOJO traces the dazzling rise and tragic fall of Sly Stone, and hears how he still had music left to share before his death earlier this year.

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,” “Stand!” and ...

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 ...

On 9 June, 2025, the music world mourned the loss of Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of Sly & The Family Stone. Born Sylvester Stewart in 1943, Stone passed away at 82 due to complications from chronic ...

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 ...

Just a week before Sly Stone‘s death last month, it was announced that the earliest known Sly and The Family Stone recording would be released as a live album titled The First Family: Live at ...