I was talking to Peter Wolf, the former J. Geils Band lead singer-co-songwriter and longtime solo artist, and I asked: “What ...

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During a Q&A following a screening of the documentary 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)', the producer explained why he and director Questlove decided it wouldn’t be “empathetic” to ...

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 ...

Phunne Stone opens up about her relationship with her dad in the new documentary 'Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)' Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for his own documentary, and the creators of the film have revealed why. During a Q&A following a screening of SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the ...

“That’s not empathetic.” While Sly himself didn’t participate, three of Stone’s children — Novena Carmel, Sylvette Robinson and Sylvester Stewart Jr. — shared anecdotes about their fathe ...

Stone’s legacy is different. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone ...

“I hate to say it,” the rhythm and blues singer D’Angelo ventures toward the end of Questlove’s new documentary “Sly Lives!” (streaming on Hulu), “but these White rock-and-rollers ...

Legendary funk musician Sly Stone‘s daughter, Phunne Stone, has revealed in a new documentary that she tried snorting chalk as a child to emulate her father’s cocaine use. “We were out there ...

At age 81, Sly Stone is having a long overdue and sorely deserved moment. 2023 saw the release of the reclusive musical titan’s memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), a book released ...