Villages-News.com's Tony Violanti looks back on the legacies of music pioneers Sly Stone and Brian Wilson.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...

Sly Stone and two of his siblings were members of Sly and the Family Stone, which was pivotal to funk music.