Sometimes the simplest songs convey the deepest truths, as seen in the first of the late Sly Stone and his Family Stone's ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

Sly Stone dies: The funk pioneer who led Sly and the Family Stone was 82 'Everyday People' (1968) The first No. 1 hit for the unit is also one of the most enduring in music history.

Revolutionary musician Sly Stone was the founding member of Sly and the Family Stone, the first major group to include Black and white men and women. Their hits "Family Affair" and "Everyday People" ...

Funk icon and pioneering multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone remolded musical norms and challenged segregation along racial and gender lines, died at the age of 82 ...

Sly Stone dies: The funk pioneer who led Sly and the Family Stone was 82 'Everyday People' (1968) The first No. 1 hit for the unit is also one of the most enduring in music history.

Sly Stone dies: The funk pioneer who led Sly and the Family Stone was 82 'Everyday People' (1968) The first No. 1 hit for the unit is also one of the most enduring in music history.

Sly Stone dies: The funk pioneer who led Sly and the Family Stone was 82 'Everyday People' (1968) The first No. 1 hit for the unit is also one of the most enduring in music history.

Sly Stone dies: The funk pioneer who led Sly and the Family Stone was 82 'Everyday People' (1968) The first No. 1 hit for the unit is also one of the most enduring in music history.

Sly Stone dies: The funk pioneer who led Sly and the Family Stone was 82 'Everyday People' (1968) The first No. 1 hit for the unit is also one of the most enduring in music history.