Though the catalog is lucrative, the music legend sold off a large portion of his music intellectual property rights long ...

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

Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor ...

Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025, at his home in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. He was 82. According to his representatives ...

Legendary musician Sly Stone, who redefined pop, funk and rock music as leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82, leaving behind a screenplay of his life story.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. "Both of them ...

Archivist Alec Palao talks about his time spent with the late legend, and how the rare live album The First Family: Live at ...

"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the ...

A.‍ ‍‍Sly ‍was ‍given ‍a ‍Jewish ‍star ‍by ‍Rabbi ‍Shlomo ‍Carlbach, ‍when ‍they ‍met ‍in ‍Haight-Ashbury ‍in ‍1967. ‍Sly ...

You can hear Sly Stone's influence in tracks by 2Pac, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul --sampling classics like "Sing a ...

Sampling Sly was like a right of passage for many MCs in the late ’80s and early ’90s. I grew up learning about Sly’s music ...

Following Sly Stone’s passing, Sly and the Family Stone return to Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart with five tracks, ...