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February 24, 2006

Sly's Strange Comeback

Inside the soul-funk recluse's Grammy surprise
August 18, 2005

Sly Stone Joins Family

Funk legend makes first appearance in twelve years to support his sister
April 15, 2004

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 43) Sly and the Family Stone

By Don Was

Recordings and Reviews

Sly & The Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience

If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near Bethel, New York — a refugee-camp experience officially declared a state disaster area on the...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Different Strokes By Different Folks

2005

The Essential Sly & The Family Stone

2002

Back on the Right Track

1979

Fresh

1973

Fresh

1973

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Biography

Along with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone, virtually invented 1970s funk. Their fusion of R&B rhythms, infectious melodies, and psychedelia created a new pop/soul/rock hybrid the impact of which has proven lasting and widespread. Motown producer Norman Whitfield, for example, patterned the label's forays into harder-driving, socially relevant material (such as the ...

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