Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Stone was a radio DJ before he found fame with Sly and the Family Stone. - Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images One day ...
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, ...
In the years since the apex of Sly & The Family Stone, his records have been sampled over 800 times, with everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Kendrick Lamar wielding fragments of his imagination.