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Sly and the Family Stone Charts
Sly Stone: Small Talk
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, November 1974
BY SLY'S SLUGGISH standards, it's not that long since the last album, Fresh; maybe married life has given him a creative surge. ...
Sly and the Family Stone: Bournemouth Opera House
Live Review by Jim Irvin, Mojo, August 2007
YOU'RE A LIFE-LONG fan of a band that fell apart long before you were old enough to see them play. Suddenly, you hear that the greatest ...
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
"The Topless Came In So I Quit, Says Sly.."
Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, August 1968
IT’S NOT every group that can boast a girl trumpeter, but Sly and the Family Stone can — and do. An unusual feature in what is ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love
Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title of ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Lyceum Ballroom, London
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, October 1970
THE APPEARANCE in London of the much-heralded exponents and instigators of psychedelic soul – only their second ever British date; the first being at the Isle ...
Soul reviews
Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1971
Ike and Tina Turner: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hits (Epic) ...
Soul Brothers: Al Green, Sly Stone, Van Morrison
Review by Charlie Gillett, Cream, January 1972
IS THE REVIEWER supposed to come to each record as an objective analyst? Or, if he isn’t one, must he pretend he is? Impossible for me, ...
Sly Stone & the Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Review by John Morthland, Creem, February 1972
AS MANY HAVE noted, Sly Stone's style revolves around so many factors that it may, paradoxically enough, be as limited as it is ground-breaking. Combine that ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Fresh (Epic)
Review by Jonh Ingham, NME, May 1973
SLY IS an interesting enigma. Top soul dj-turned-musician, he singlehandedly influenced the course of soul music with a sound that owed more to acid than the ...
Wet City: Sly and Company Live in London
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, July 1973
LIKE THE WEATHER, the music at London’s White City on Sunday was a mixture of fair and foul. ...
Sly & The Family Stone: White City, London
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, August 1973
"SLY STONE to appear at White City Festival". After reading various articles concerning Sly Stone, you imagine the feeling of reading this headline. ...
Sly & The Family Stone: The Palladium, Los Angeles
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, November 1973
HOLLYWOOD: Will he? Won't he? Will he? Won't he? Sly Stone's reputation is too firmly etched for these questions not to be asked when he's advertised ...
Sly Stone: Super Sly
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, June 1974
HE EXTENDED A hand but looked elsewhere. Who could tell where his eyes focused beneath those silver shades? He gripped and I felt pain through the ...
Sly Stone: Small Talk (Epic)
Review by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, August 1974
THIS RECORD IS more to be appreciated in the mind than enjoyed by the ears – at least when this particular mind and set of ears ...
Larry Graham: Platform For Station
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, January 1975
OAKLAND: Few people can ever have listened to a Sly Stone record without experiencing a gut feeling as the bass guitar runs through its paces, putting ...
Stone Free: Sly Stone
Profile by Simon Witter, i-D, December 1987
Sly Stone, one of the first and greatest international black superstars, has survived unimaginable amounts of sex and drugs to be with us today. As the ...
The Pink Hippopotamus, The Ferry Godmother and Ilili (A Non-Fiction Fairy Tale): David Kapralik in 1996
Profile by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1996
THE DAY HE GETS OUT of the hospital from his third suicide attempt, Dave Kapralik is ready to try to snuff himself again. He's got nothing ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Introduction & Voices ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter I: A Little Prince ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 2: Really A Rhythm and Blues Cat ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 3: Boys, Girls, Black, White ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 4: Pussycat à Go Go, Electric Circus ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 5: Playing Toilets ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 6: As Big As Life ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 7: There Is Going To Be a Riot ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 8: Guns And Dogs ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 9: Sly's Last Chance ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 10: Time To Go ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 11: Only Kidding ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 12: Nobody Believed Anymore ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Discography ...
Rock 100: Sly and the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
JIMI HENDRIX WAS THE FIRST BLACK TO PLAY acid rock, but he remained a black musician playing to white audiences; he did not get played on ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Lucifer Rising
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, Mojo, August 2001
THE ENGLISH TUDOR MANSION AT 783 BELAIR ROAD HAD BEEN built for Jeanette MacDonald, the Hollywood screen actress who starred in all those '30s operettas with ...
Sly Stone: Back On The Right Track*** and Ain't But The One Way*** (Warner)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
REISSUE OF Sylvester Stewart's last two albums to ...
In Pursuit Of The Pimp Mobile
Essay by James Maycock, Nine, October 2002
A look at how black pimp culture has crossed into black popular culture, for which I interviewed Antonio Fargas. I refer to Miles Davis, the Ohio ...
Looking at the Devil: Sly Stone and There's a Riot Goin' On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, March 2006
DICK CAVETT didn't know what had hit him. The mild-mannered, impeccably liberal TV host had had some far-out guests on his ABC talk show, but no ...
Sly Stone: I Want To Take You... Lower
Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, July 2007
Sly Stone was the funkadelic pioneer who made the world dance, broke racial boundaries, raised hell and set Woodstock alight. Last week, in Italy, after years ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, November 1974
BY SLY'S SLUGGISH standards, it's not that long since the last album, Fresh; maybe married life has given him a creative surge. ...
Sly and the Family Stone: Bournemouth Opera House
Live Review by Jim Irvin, Mojo, August 2007
YOU'RE A LIFE-LONG fan of a band that fell apart long before you were old enough to see them play. Suddenly, you hear that the greatest ...
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
"The Topless Came In So I Quit, Says Sly.."
Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, August 1968
IT’S NOT every group that can boast a girl trumpeter, but Sly and the Family Stone can — and do. An unusual feature in what is ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love
Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title of ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Lyceum Ballroom, London
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, October 1970
THE APPEARANCE in London of the much-heralded exponents and instigators of psychedelic soul – only their second ever British date; the first being at the Isle ...
Soul reviews
Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1971
Ike and Tina Turner: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hits (Epic) ...
Soul Brothers: Al Green, Sly Stone, Van Morrison
Review by Charlie Gillett, Cream, January 1972
IS THE REVIEWER supposed to come to each record as an objective analyst? Or, if he isn’t one, must he pretend he is? Impossible for me, ...
Sly Stone & the Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Review by John Morthland, Creem, February 1972
AS MANY HAVE noted, Sly Stone's style revolves around so many factors that it may, paradoxically enough, be as limited as it is ground-breaking. Combine that ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Fresh (Epic)
Review by Jonh Ingham, NME, May 1973
SLY IS an interesting enigma. Top soul dj-turned-musician, he singlehandedly influenced the course of soul music with a sound that owed more to acid than the ...
Wet City: Sly and Company Live in London
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, July 1973
LIKE THE WEATHER, the music at London’s White City on Sunday was a mixture of fair and foul. ...
Sly & The Family Stone: White City, London
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, August 1973
"SLY STONE to appear at White City Festival". After reading various articles concerning Sly Stone, you imagine the feeling of reading this headline. ...
Sly & The Family Stone: The Palladium, Los Angeles
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, November 1973
HOLLYWOOD: Will he? Won't he? Will he? Won't he? Sly Stone's reputation is too firmly etched for these questions not to be asked when he's advertised ...
Sly Stone: Super Sly
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, June 1974
HE EXTENDED A hand but looked elsewhere. Who could tell where his eyes focused beneath those silver shades? He gripped and I felt pain through the ...
Sly Stone: Small Talk (Epic)
Review by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, August 1974
THIS RECORD IS more to be appreciated in the mind than enjoyed by the ears – at least when this particular mind and set of ears ...
Larry Graham: Platform For Station
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, January 1975
OAKLAND: Few people can ever have listened to a Sly Stone record without experiencing a gut feeling as the bass guitar runs through its paces, putting ...
Stone Free: Sly Stone
Profile by Simon Witter, i-D, December 1987
Sly Stone, one of the first and greatest international black superstars, has survived unimaginable amounts of sex and drugs to be with us today. As the ...
The Pink Hippopotamus, The Ferry Godmother and Ilili (A Non-Fiction Fairy Tale): David Kapralik in 1996
Profile by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1996
THE DAY HE GETS OUT of the hospital from his third suicide attempt, Dave Kapralik is ready to try to snuff himself again. He's got nothing ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Introduction & Voices ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter I: A Little Prince ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 2: Really A Rhythm and Blues Cat ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 3: Boys, Girls, Black, White ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 4: Pussycat à Go Go, Electric Circus ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 5: Playing Toilets ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 6: As Big As Life ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 7: There Is Going To Be a Riot ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 8: Guns And Dogs ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 9: Sly's Last Chance ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 10: Time To Go ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 11: Only Kidding ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 12: Nobody Believed Anymore ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Discography ...
Rock 100: Sly and the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
JIMI HENDRIX WAS THE FIRST BLACK TO PLAY acid rock, but he remained a black musician playing to white audiences; he did not get played on ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Lucifer Rising
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, Mojo, August 2001
THE ENGLISH TUDOR MANSION AT 783 BELAIR ROAD HAD BEEN built for Jeanette MacDonald, the Hollywood screen actress who starred in all those '30s operettas with ...
Sly Stone: Back On The Right Track*** and Ain't But The One Way*** (Warner)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
REISSUE OF Sylvester Stewart's last two albums to ...
In Pursuit Of The Pimp Mobile
Essay by James Maycock, Nine, October 2002
A look at how black pimp culture has crossed into black popular culture, for which I interviewed Antonio Fargas. I refer to Miles Davis, the Ohio ...
Looking at the Devil: Sly Stone and There's a Riot Goin' On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, March 2006
DICK CAVETT didn't know what had hit him. The mild-mannered, impeccably liberal TV host had had some far-out guests on his ABC talk show, but no ...
Sly Stone: I Want To Take You... Lower
Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, July 2007
Sly Stone was the funkadelic pioneer who made the world dance, broke racial boundaries, raised hell and set Woodstock alight. Last week, in Italy, after years ...
Biography
Sly & the Family Stone were an important and influential American band from Oakland, California. Active from 1966 until 1975, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia. Headed by singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and containing several of his family members and friends, the band was the first major American rock band to have an integrated lineup in both race and gender.
Brothers Sly Stone and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone combined their bands (Sly & the Stoners and Freddie & the Stone Souls) at the end of 1966. Sly and Freddie Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Gregg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham completed the original lineup; Sly and Freddie’s sister, singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, joined within a year. This collective recorded five Top 10 hits and four groundbreaking albums, which greatly influenced the sound of American pop music, soul, R&B, funk, and hip hop music. In the preface of his 1998 book For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History, Joel Selvin sums up the importance of Sly & the Family Stone’s influence on African American music by stating “there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone”. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
During the early 1970s, the band switched to a grittier funk sound, which was as influential on the music industry as their earlier work. The band began to fall apart during this period because of drug abuse and ego clashes; consequently, the fortunes and reliability of the band deteriorated, leading to its dissolution in 1975. Sly Stone continued to record albums and tour with a new rotating lineup under the “Sly & the Family Stone” name from 1975 to 1983. In 1987, Sly Stone was arrested and sentenced for cocaine use, after which he went into effective retirement.
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