Sly Stone's daughter, Phunne Stone, recalled what it was like growing up with the funk artist in a new documentary titled ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his ...

The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s mix of Black and white musicians and women and ... when he was a member of a Manhattan branch of the Black Panthers, the band’s song “Stand!” meant for him allegiance with ...

Questlove’s new documentary aims to dissect the forward-looking brilliance of Sly Stone and his band, but mostly it traces their downward arc.

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family ... accidental No. 1 songs that he didn’t intend on catching on. On the 1969 song “Stand!” with the breakbeat at the end I ...