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Sly Stone

May 2024

  • Questlove, in NYC 2024

    ‘Rapper’s Delight planted a seed for the rest of my life’: Questlove on hoarding, capturing hip-hop history and the Kendrick-Drake beef

    The drummer, DJ and Oscar-winning director is a key custodian of Black culture, with 200,000 records to prove it. So why does he think he’s getting too old for rap music?

November 2023

  • Sly Stone

    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) by Sly Stone review – funk, fame and addiction

    The genre-bending musician has an astonishing story to tell – but wrestling it into a conventional narrative doesn’t quite work

October 2023

  • Sly Stone in a cool hat and shades singing into a microphone on the american TV show The Midnight Special in 1974.

    Book of the day
    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly Stone review – euphoric expression and drug-crazed chaos

    A memoir by the groundbreaking funk-rock-soul survivor contains all the playfulness and charm of his music but little in the way of insight
  • Sly Stone

    ‘I kicked ass’: funk pioneer Sly Stone on taking Woodstock by storm, partying with George Clinton and getting clean

    The frontman of Sly and the Family Stone brought the house down at Woodstock with a performance of I Want To Take You Higher. These extracts from his new memoir depict a life as vivid and riotous as the music of his band
  • Sly Stone at home in 1971.

    ‘I never lived a life I didn’t want to live’: Sly Stone on addiction, ageing and changing music for ever

    The immeasurably influential, infamously erratic soul star has written an unlikely autobiography. In a rare interview, Stone opens up on drugs, feuds and his treasure trove of unreleased tracks

March 2023

  • Sly Stone, pictured in 2007.

    ‘It’s been a wild ride’: funk legend Sly Stone announces memoir

  • Sly Stone pictured closeup in a red woollen hat.

    Ranked
    Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!

July 2021

  • Summer of Soul film stills

    Summer of Soul review – the best concert film ever made?

    Questlove’s magnificent documentary features rediscovered footage of Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone et al in their prime

July 2017

  • Michael Copp’s father, the Rev S Ernest Copp, is honoured by the mayor, AG Cochrane, for organising a Christmas party for children in Abbotts Park shelter, Leyton, east London.

    Family life
    Family life: Bomb-shelter children’s party; Sly Stone’s I Want to Take You Higher; baked bean spaghetti

    Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes

March 2017

  • Sly & The Family Stone

    10 of the best
    Sly and the Family Stone – 10 of the best

    From the birth of a funk superhero team to claustrophobic social comment, here are the high points in an occasionally terrifying career

February 2017

  • Father John Misty Press shots 2015 must credit photographer Emma Tillman00A20024.JPG

    These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts

    Father John Misty just debuted Leaving LA, a 13-minute, chorus-free track off his upcoming album. Here are the most brilliant and bewitching songs to have gotten the long-form treatment

May 2016

  • Sly &amp; The Family STONE<br>Sly &amp; The Family STONE 1970s

    We should celebrate greats like Sly Stone while they're still with us

    The outpouring of grief for Prince and David Bowie was justified – but another rock and funk pioneer languishes ignored by pop culture. Let’s give him his due

November 2015

  • Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini of Sly and the Family Stone in 1969.

    Family Stone co-founder Cynthia Robinson dies aged 69

    The trumpeter and vocalist who teamed up with Sly Stone to produce songs such as Everyday People has died after being diagnosed with cancer

August 2015

  • Obama, according to Spotify, enjoys listening to Sly and the Family Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime."

    Potus playlist: Barack Obama shares his favorite summer tracks on Spotify

    The US president freshens America’s musical palate with a survey of tried-and-true classics and discoverable new artists ranging from soul to rock to jazz

June 2015

  • The Family Stone at O2 ABC Glasgow

    The Family Stone review – feelgood funketeers do the classics justice

    Though they lack the direction of their long-absent leader, the remaining Family Stone are tremendously tight

April 2015

  • Darkness on the Edge of Town

    Björk, Blondie and Bruce – the cover portraits that deserve to hang in a gallery

    The National Portrait Gallery in London is to display the photo from the cover of Kate Tempest’s album. But it’s not the only cover portrait that deserves to be exhibited – here are some of our favourites

February 2015

  • D'Angelo Performs At Eventim Apollo In London

    D’Angelo review – steamy soul and showbiz touches the sublime

    With his echoes of Sly, Prince and Parliament, D’Angelo is back from the wilderness, and he’s sharper and stronger than before, writes Stevie Chick

January 2015

  • Blink-182, in a photo from the 1990s.

    What we learned this week
    What we learned: North West's video misery and Blink-182's breakup saga

  • Sly Stone.

    Sly Stone awarded $5m in unpaid royalties

December 2014

  • Photo of James BROWN

    TV review
    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove review – black and proud

    What is funk? Unapologetic blackness – and the best damn music around, without which hip-hop would never have happened, writes Sam Wollaston
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