RIP Sly Stone

[stlukesguild]

Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart, 1943-2025) along with Brian Wilson, is one of two giants of pop music from the 1960s that we have lost over the past 2 days. Sly and the Family Stone were a mixed-gender and racially integrated group that blended multiple musical genre including Funk, Rock, Soul, Psychedelia, Avant-Garde, etc… He is also credited with being one of the major figures bringing social-political commentary into Pop Music. One obituary for Sly that I read suggested that he was Prince before Prince existed… and indeed, the “Purple One” admitted to Sly Stone as being a major influence.

RIP Sly Stone

 

[Artyczar]

His music was historical and amazing. Thank goodness he and the band influenced Prince.

 

[OliveOyl]

Brian Wilson never meant much to me but SLY did! This was the only one of their albums that I owned:

This was way back in the olde high school days of yore while I was at my most moody and angsty teenage self. And despite the fact that this album was happy and poppy and funky, I listened (and probably danced) to it constantly. I lost touch with the group, and him, after this one but still…he was a big part of my little girl world there for awhile.

Bye Sly.