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Los Angeles – 22 July 2008
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1. George Clinton greeted by Sly Stone
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United States – 7 November 1968
2. STILL IMAGE: Rock singer Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone
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United States – 10 December 1970
3. STILL IMAGE: Rock singer Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone
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United States – April 1972
4. STILL IMAGE: Rock star Sylvester "Sly" Stone of Sly and the Family Stone
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New York – 5 June 1974
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5. Zoom in Madison Square Garden sign
6. Performance clip – "Family Affair’ Sly and the Famliy Stone
7. Medium shot Sly Stone backstage
8. Various shots of marriage of Sly Stone to Kathy Silva
9. Performance clip – "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" Sly and the Famliy Stone
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Santa Monica – 12 November 1974
10. STILL IMAGE: Rock music star Sylvester (Sly Stone) Stewart and estranged wife Kathy, who last month asked an end to their marriage, appear about ready to kiss and make up as they meet while waiting the start of a scheduled temporary support hearing.
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Los Angeles – 27 November 1989
11. STILL IMAGE: Sylvester Stewart, better known as singer Sly Stone, talks with lawyer Glen Stone in court during arraignment on outstanding cocaine possession charges.
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Los Angeles – 8 February 2006
12. STILL IMAGE: Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the Grammy Awards
STORYLINE:
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!” and “Family Affair,” has died. He was 82
Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, had been in poor health in recent years. His publicist Carleen Donovan said Monday that Stone died in Los Angeles surrounded by family after contending with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other ailments.
Formed in 1966-67, Sly and the Family Stone was the first major group to include Black and white men and women, and well embodied a time when anything seemed possible — riots and assassinations, communes and love-ins. The singers screeched, chanted, crooned and hollered. The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk.
Sly’s time on top was brief, roughly from 1968-1971, but profound. No band better captured the gravity-defying euphoria of the Woodstock era or more bravely addressed the crash which followed. From early songs as rousing as their titles — “I Want To Take You Higher,” “Stand!” — to the sober aftermath of “Family Affair” and “Runnin’ Away,” Sly and the Family Stone spoke for a generation whether or not it liked what they had to say.
Stone’s group began as a Bay Area sextet featuring Sly on keyboards, Larry Graham on bass; Sly’s brother, Freddie, on guitar; sister Rose on vocals; Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini horns and Greg Errico on drums. They debuted with the album “A Whole New Thing” and earned the title with their breakthrough single, “Dance to the Music.” It hit the top 10 in April 1968, the week the Rev. Martin Luther King was murdered, and helped launch an era when the polish of Motown and the understatement of Stax suddenly seemed of another time.
In 2025, Questlove released the documentary “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius).”
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