Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Jan. 29, 1983, edition of The Pantagraph. Stone died June 9, 2025, at the age of 82. SEVERAL WEEKS ago in PREVIEW, an account of an ...

Sly Stone: a rare conversation and his classic hits with guest host Chris Douridas on the Memorial Day edition of Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15am. Sly Stone: a rare conversation and his classic ...

Sly Stone, leader of the self-named genre-bending funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. A statement released by his family shared, “After a prolonged battle with COPD and other ...

Sly Stone passed away on June 9, 2025. “I didn’t realize how important it was to tell his story while he was still alive,” Patel says. At Stone’s private funeral, Patel learned from the musician’s ...

When Sly Stone died in June at the age of 82, one of those mourning him at his funeral was in a unique position to appreciate the full extent of his musical gifts, as a brilliant talent himself – the ...

Of paradigm-shifting legends who’ve made recent transitions, the epitaph following the death of Sylvester Stewart/Sly Stone, is inarguably the most elusive and perplexing. One of the undisputed ...

I’m a child of the Sixties, and the minute Sly came out, he was on the radio. Being in New York City in 1968, ’69, I was hearing him on WABC. “Dance to the ...

Where were you when you heard the news about Sly Stone's June 9 death from COPD and, according to his family, "other underlying health issues"? I was on my way to a doctor's appointment, and I lied ...

Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone electrified Woodstock audiences and introduced a genre-fusing brand of psychedelic funk with hits such as “Family Affair” and “Everyday People” but then ...