Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...

Sly Stone, who died Monday at 82, was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century — here are 10 ...

People" to "Dance to the Music," these are Sly & the Family Stone's best songs and greatest hits, a tribute to the legacy of ...

Sly Stone, center, performs with Freddie Stone, left, and Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. (CBS via ) ...

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 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 ...

Sly Stone’s hit-making era lasted ... are 10 of his essential recordings. In the pantheon of catchphrases sprung from pop songs, few loom larger than “Different strokes for different folks ...

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 ...