LOS ANGELES " Sly Stone's hit-making era lasted all of six years " from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 " but the music he made over that half-decade helped map the future. The singer, songwriter, producer and style icon, who died Monday at 82, came up as a DJ in San Francisco before putting together the Family Stone: a multiracial band of men and women that melted the lines between funk, ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:39PM on June 10, 2025