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, who died Monday at 82, was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century — here are ... The essential songs that may be obvious — nearly all are from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...

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, ...

Of course, if the song was a high point, by extension, what came next meant that Sly and the Family Stone were about to get low. 6ix, ‘I’m Just Like You’ (1970) Image Credit: Michael Ochs ...

A timeline of Sly Stone's career in 10 essential songs. Mikael Wood. ... Sly Stone, center, performs with Freddie Stone, left, and Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone in 1969.

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

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 ...