Sly and the Family Stone perform "Dance to the Music": A string of hits followed in quick succession, including "Everyday People," "Family Affair," and "Hot Fun in the Summertime." ...

Stone changed R&B, soul and rock music forever (while helping to invent funk along the way) with a pop sensibility that few artists have ever even dreamed of.

Feb. 1975 Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart is remembered worldwide as the front man of Sly and the Family Stone. Shown here, Sly Stone performing at the American Music Awards special in 1975.

Rickey Vincent is a music historian who's made a career out of studying funk and soul music – including the work of Sly Stone. Rickey teaches at UC Berkeley and he's also a DJ on KPFA up in the ...

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," "Stand ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s performance at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969 was memorialized in the Oscar-winning documentary “Summer of Soul,” directed by musician Ahmir “Questlove ...

Sly and the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” landed like a quiet revolution. After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, ...

In 1969, Sly Stone and his band of multicolored Bay Area musicians released Stand! — a near-perfect album of searing psychedelic funk that went on to shape rock, jazz, pop, and some musical styles ...

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 died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music.

Sly Stone died last month at the age of 82. Sly founded and sang with the funk act Sly and the Family Stone, one of the biggest and most consequential funk bands in the history of modern music. If you ...