Stone, an eccentric whose songs of uplift were tempered by darker themes of struggle and disillusionment, had a fall as steep ...

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

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As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own music. “He was always trying to mix up boundaries,” says Sheffield.

Sly Stone was more than a legendary musician. He made moments — moments of joy, rebellion, connection and radical love. With ...

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