Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

This story was originally published in the November 11, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone.

He electrified Woodstock crowds with his brand of psychedelic funk but fell into a fog of drug abuse at the height of his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” ...