Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over ...

Sly Stone wasn’t only among the first songwriter ... and “There’s a Riot Goin’ on.” The essential songs that may be obvious — nearly all are from 1969, and many come from the stellar ...

In a famed 1970 Rolling Stone profile ... their hit song era and into the cynicism of that early Seventies moment. The band would bear it together, until they couldn’t anymore. Sly and the ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making ... Stone’s songs represent a crucial part of hip-hop’s DNA. Here, in the order they were released, are 10 of his essential recordings. ‘Dance to the Music ...

It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul ...

Sly Stone's 5 essential songs: From 'Everyday People' to 'Stand!' After huge chart-topping success in the 1960s and 1970s, Stone had become an enigmatic and largely reclusive figure plagued by ...