In the fall of 1971, 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, fans ...

Today, millions of musicians record and splice tracks from their bedrooms, closets and garages. Half a century ago, the funk pioneer revolutionized home recording.

Sly Stone turned isolation into inspiration, forging a path for a generation of music-makers The charismatic front man of Sly and the Family Stone died on June 9, 2025, at the age of 82.

You Can’t Understand Black Music Without Sly Stone His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding.

The music icons, both dead this week at age 82, were troubled architects of music's future.

That’s because Sly Stone created music without boundaries or regard for the constraints of genre. It was Black music, because Sly was Black, and that’s the only kind of music we can make.

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, song writer and record producer.

But in 1983, following a struggle with drug and alcohol abuse, Sly Stone went into permanent retirement, and the band disbanded. For decades, music lovers wondered what happened to Sly.

Music Sly Stone Was a Whole New Thing He didn’t just change the music of the 1960s and ’70s. He gave us the way it still sounds today.

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.

Sly Stone, the funk music pioneer and frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, confirmed to CBS News.

Dionne Warwick, Jamie Foxx Among Those Paying Tribute to Sly Stone: “May He Rest in Paradise” "From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of my soul," 'Sly Lives ...