Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Stone, beloved patriarch of Sly & The Family Stone, had died at the tender age of 82. The news was confirmed by the family in ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the ...

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 ...

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Sly Stone in 1973. Though he eventually receded from center stage, his ...