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	Sly & the Family Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sly Stone continued to record solo albums and tour under the "Sly and the Family Stone" name from 1975 until 1987, when he was arrested and sentenced for cocaine use.
		Sly and the Family Stone began to tour across the country, and were well-known for their energetic performances and unique costuming.
		Sly and the Family Stone were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sly_&_the_Family_Stone (4201 words)

	Sly and the Family Stone
		Sly's knowledge of music and his charming personality led to disc jockey positions at R&B stations KDIA and KSOL, where his shows were popular enough land him a job as a producer for Autumn Records.
		Sly's offer to sit in on the latter was turned down and the song did not become a hit until it was reworked a couple of years later by the Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals.
		Sly and the Family Stone no longer had the drawing power to be a headlining road show, but singer Bobby Womack felt it necessary to help Sly into drug treatment, afterwards honouring his mentor by taking him on tour.
	www.classicbands.com /sly.html (1298 words)

	VH1.com : Sly & the Family Stone : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stone became disillusioned with the ideals he had been preaching in his music, becoming addicted to a variety of drugs in the process.
		Stone signed with Warner Brothers that same year, crafting the comeback effort Back on the Right Track with several original members of the Family Stone, but the record was critically panned and a commercial failure.
		Stone was arrested and imprisoned for cocaine possession by the end of 1987, and he was never able to recover from the final arrest.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/sly_and_the_family_stone/bio.jhtml (1168 words)

	Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On ---Ink Blot Magazine
		In early 1967, Sly & The Family Stone were born, releasing the appropriately titled "A Whole New Thing" on Epic Records that same year to limited commercial or critical success.
		Sly has not released a record since 1983, and has not made a public appearance since 1993, when Sly and the Family Stone were inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
		Sly was not the only one who had become drug addled and disillusioned--band members were frequently absent from recording sessions, leaving Sly alone with virtually unlimited studio time on his hands.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/sly.htm (844 words)

	SLY and the FAMILY STONE : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		'Family Affair', no. 1 hit marking one of the first uses of a drum machine, since thought by many to be the most disastrous innovation in pop music.
		By this time Stone had acquired a reputation for unreliability due to a drug problem; Graham left to form Graham Central Station, Andy Newmark replaced Errico and Pat Rizzo was added on sax.
		Fresh '73 was a top ten album; Sly got married in concert at Madison Square Garden '74; Small Talk '74 slipped to no. 15; his solo High On You '75 did not reach the top 40 albums; the group's Heard Ya Missed Me, Well, I'm Back '76 did not make the top 200.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/s/S120.HTM (389 words)

	Sly & The Family Stone Reviews
		After all, Sly's mantra ("dance to the music") is a simple one that will never date, and his energetic music is timeless so long as there's a sun in the sky and a party to be found.
		Sly became a drug addict and his behavior became increasingly erratic, which caused The Family Stone to fragment amid a legendary number of missed concert gigs that almost wiped out all the good vibes his previous work had garnered.
		Sly's outlandish, hedonistic behavior continued, but he offered few apologies on songs such as "If You Want Me To Stay" ("for me to stay here I've got to be me") and "Skin I'm In" ("if I could do it all over again I'd be in the same skin I am").
	www.geocities.com /sfloman/slyandthefamilystone.html (2448 words)

	Sly & The Family Stone Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sly and the Family Stone were formed in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., in 1967, and disbanded in 1975.
		Sly was jailed for possession of cocaine in 1987 and ended the decade fighting further extradition charges.
		In 1993, Sly Stone was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, however, at the induction ceremony, he was found living in a sheltered-housing complex.
	www.soulwalking.co.uk /SlyStone.html (846 words)

	Sly & the Family Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sly was to ingest all of these influences making a study of artists near and far to create new collages of sound.
		Sly's offer to sit in on the latter was turned down, the song did not become a smash until it was reworked a couple of years later by the Jefferson Airplane with Slick on vocals.
		However rock history may judge Sly's "different strokes" in making his way through his own career, his twin achievements of helping to herald an age of enlightenment and providing a model of synthesis in production and composition are unassailable and difficult to equal.
	www.texaspopfestival.com /artists/sly_&_the_family_stone.htm (863 words)

	Sly and the Family Stone
		Sly and the Family Stone managed to turn the music business of their time into a new direction.
		Sly Stone was born Sylvester Steward on March 15, 1941 in Denton, Texas, but grew up in Vallejo, California.
		Unfortunately, on the height of their success, Sly Stone's drug addiction became worse and he got famous for arriving late for his concerts or not appearing at all.
	www.bay-area-bands.com /bab00050.htm (1899 words)

	Sly & the Family Stone: Biography
		Sly and the Family Stone harnessed all of the disparate musical and social trends of the late '60s, creating a wild, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, RandB, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries down without a second thought.
		Before Stone, very few soul and RandB groups delved into political and social commentary; after him, it became a tradition in soul, funk, and hip-hop.
		Stone appeared on Jesse Johnson's 1986 RandB hit "Crazay." The following year, he dueted with Martha Davis on "Love and Affection" for the Soul Man soundtrack; he also he recorded "Eek-a-Bo-Static," a single that didn't chart.
	afgen.com /sly_family.html (1201 words)

	Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits \| sputnikmusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is Sly at his most prolific, and as always with Sly, he manages to cram a slightly sinister instrumental part in the end.
		And he put it intoa darn good context, dismissing racism, because, let's not forget, Sly was one of the first people to have a completely fair and multicultural band, notably his white hornists, and fl rhythmists.
		Sly was a bringer of people, and this is him at his very peak.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=3115&genreid=0&styleid=18 (1436 words)

	SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sly and the Family Stone helped pioneer one of dominant styles of the 1970s, funk music.
		Their variant fused the psychedelic rock of the late 1960s with classic soul; in that sense, it differed considerably from the bass-heavy grooves of mainstream funk.
		The uplifting, anthem-like quality of Sly and the Family Stone’s early work gave way to a decidedly more negative, militant tone in There’s A Riot Goin’ On; however, the uniformly high quality of Sly’s musical ideas and production work made it the most successful—artistically and commercially—of his albums.
	www.shsu.edu /~lis_fwh/book/american_renaissance/support/Sly.htm (435 words)

	Funk Page -- SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While the group was at the height of its popularity, Sly Stone was beginning to unravel behind the scenes.
		Though the album shot to number one upon its fall 1971 release, the record -- including "Family Affair," his last number one single -- was dark, hazy and paranoid, and his audience began to shrink slightly.
		Stone was arrested and imprisoned for cocaine posession by the end of 1987, and he was never able to recover from the final arrest.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Delta/7733/sly_family_stone.html (1232 words)

	Sly and the Family Stone -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		When Lucy Stone married the Ohio abolitionist Henry Blackwell in 1855, she kept her own name as a protest against the unequal laws that restricted married women.
		Families exist in some form in every society of the world, and every person is or was a member of some family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9099635?tocId=9099635 (826 words)

	HEY BROTHA: Sly, Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, Larry Graham, Little Sister, Jerry Martini, Freddie Stone, Rose ...
		Sly hadn't appeared in public in 12 years.
		Sly took chances, he stood right out in front, didn't pretend to be "color blind", the inertracial makeup of his band and the unifying FUNK of his music said what he wanted to say.
		Sly had the ability to be BOTH "mainstream and underground" at the same time........he was a "crossover artist", but unlike the man with whom he will forever be compared to (Jimi Hendrix) he was able to "crossover", without losing the Black audience.
	www.soul-patrol.com /funk/sly.htm (2992 words)

	Plan 9 - Sly & The Family Stone : The Essential Sly & The Family Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For all the multi-cultural hippie freedom Sly and the Family Stone stood for in their pre-RIOT glory days, frontman Sly Stone was smart and talented enough to know that it was through catchy pop singles that his band's message would gain its widest dissemination.
		Six cuts from 1973's FRESH represent that excellent, underrated album (and the sophisticated down-tempo funk Sly was pioneering in the early '70s).
		Overall, Sly and the Family Stone's signature sound, a mixture of infectious energy, ebullient melodic hooks, and heavy funk beats, was one of the most distinctive of its era, and went on to directly influence everyone from Miles Davis to Prince.
	www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=69699868672 (192 words)

	Jared's Pick - Album Reviews: Sly & The Family Stone - Anthology
		The slapping, thumb popping bass sound that is the diamond-hard cornerstone of funk and is de rigueur for practically every modern bass player was invented by Graham, and Sly Stone is the rhythm-meister who coaxed it out of him.
		Sly and the Family Stone was the first sexually and racially integrated band of the 60's, and that openness extended into his music.
		Sly's heartfelt singing is meant to educate your mind, uplift your soul and shake your ass all at once, and what's nobler than that?
	www.angelfire.com /nh/jaredspick/slystone.html (333 words)

	Britannica.com: Head Sounds: Psychedelic Rock
		Sly and the Family Stone was an American rock and funk band that became widely popular in the late 1960s with a string of anthemlike pop singles, stirring socially relevant albums, and memorable live performances.
		Based in the San Francisco Bay area, the unpredictable and innovative Family Stone was one of the first acts to feature fls and whites and men and women all performing and singing simultaneously.
		Interest in Sly Stone resurfaced with the "sampling" of many of his songs (and Graham's bass lines) by rap music producers in the 1990s.
	www.britannica.com /psychedelic/bands/slyfamilystone.html (687 words)

	Sly & the Family Stone discography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Gedup.com - Reviews - Sly And The Family Stone / Stand! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sly And The Family Stone created music that never had passed through a human earhole before.
		Sly Stone did something that Brown never managed to do, namely to play the funky grooves and still keep the white audience interested.
		Sly and The Family Stone was years ahead.
	www.gedup.com /reviews/review.php?id=45 (518 words)

	Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! \| sputnikmusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sly Stewart is a man of creativity, leadership and personality.
		Throughout his years of performing and playing, there may not be a portrait of himself as well done as Sly & The Family Stone’s 1969 hit Stand!.
		Throughout Stand!, Sly Stewart is backed by his band The Family Stone.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=2144&genreid=0&styleid=18 (878 words)

	BBC - Music / Profiles - Sly and the Family Stone
		Mixing together pop, funk and pscyhedelia Sly and his mixed sex, mixed race band defined 'the sixties', and their immediate aftermath.
		Sly's early musical projects included producing hippy bands The Beau Brummels and The Great Society (forerunners of Jefferson Airplane).
		Larry Graham, the Family's original bass player, is regarded as the inventor of the 'slapping' bass technique.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/slyandfamily.shtml (355 words)

	RollingStone.com: Sly & the Family Stone : Beck, Moby Toast Sly Stone : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stone last released an album of new material in 1983.
		Stone was invited to be part of the sessions but did not join the group.
		A latecomer to Sly and Family Stone, born right around the time the band hit its late Sixties peak, Levine was introduced to the group when he heard "If You Want Me to Stay" in the movie Dead Presidents.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5937164 (236 words)

	Sly Stone/Graham Central Station
		Sly uses the exact same chord progression on count 'em five songs, and almost gets away with it: "Dance To The Medley," a twelve-minute party, is a tour de force.
		Still, Sly was a million miles ahead of uptight Motown competitors like the Temptations at this point; and none of his white rock contemporaries had anything approaching his brassy ensemble sound.
		Stone seems to have run out of new ideas by this record; the title song (with a great bass line by Bobby Vega), "Crossword Puzzle" and "Who Do You Love?" are effective, but conceptually they're basically reruns.
	www.warr.org /sly.html (2423 words)

	Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		[+] is the pinnacle of Sly and the Family Stone's early work, a record that represents a culmination of the group's musical vision and accomplishment.
		Add to this a sharpened sense of pop songcraft, elastic band interplay, and a flowering of Sly's social conscious, and the result is utterly stunning.
		Few records of its time touched it, and Sly topped it only by offering its opposite the next time out.
	www.music.com /release/stand!/1 (405 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: The Best of Sly and the Family Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sly Stone's gift as producer and ringleader was to mesh the emerging big-band, good-time funk sound of the late 1960s with an unerring sense of melody, structure and message.
		In the late 1970s CBS (who owned the Sly catalogue at that time) put out a collection on 12" singles and an album too of the best of Sly and the Family Stone.
		Sly Stone is one of those amazing talents, which can turn its hand to anything.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002480M (942 words)

	NewBeats: Sly and the Family Stone
		Sly and the Family Stone was the most important band of their time.
		This late '60s outfit led by the brilliant and uber cool Sly Stone paved the way for the emergence of funk groups of the '70s, made Motown reevaluate their stylish pop sound, steered Miles Davis to embrace funk in his jazz, and gave birth to disco by the end of the decade.
		Aside from the mind-blowing rhythmic playing, this multiracial band also infused a hippie idealism until it grew militant in addressing social issues of the time.
	www.newbeats.com /slystone.html (122 words)

	Sly & the Family Stone MP3 Downloads - Sly & the Family Stone Music Downloads - Sly & the Family Stone Music Videos
		Sly & the Family Stone came into their own with their second album, Dance to the Music.
		If there's a surfeit of classic material, with only the title track being a genuine classic, that winds up being nearly incidental, since it's so easy to get sucked into the freewheeling spirit and cavalier virtuosity of the group.
		Consider this -- prior to this record no one, not even the Family Stone, treated soul as a psychedelic sun-splash, filled with bright melodies, kaleidoscopic arrangements, inextricably intertwined interplay, and deft, fast rhythms.
	www.mp3.com /albums/14763/summary.html (432 words)

	Sly and the Family Stone: The Essential Sly and the Family Stone - PopMatters Music Review
		The work of Sly and the Family Stone has been lauded by critics for decades, so a lengthy treatise about its importance is hardly in order here.
		The Essential Sly and the Family Stone is the most comprehensive compilation of the band's greatest work, and it contains the latest digitally remastered versions of the group's best songs.
		On some of the best early Sly recordings collected here, the remastering engineer cut the upper frequencies and boosted the midrange.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/slyandthefamilystone-essential.shtml (552 words)

	Tuwa's Shanty: Sly and the Family Stone
		Tough figuring out what to post today--I decided on Sly and the Family Stone and then spent way too long trying to decide which tracks.
		There's no way to sum up Sly and the Family Stone's output in two tracks, so just take these as two I enjoy.
		And if you haven't yet, poke around in their catalogue; the discs are worth the attention, especially up to 1973's Fresh.
	tuwa.blogspot.com /2004/11/sly-and-family-stone.html (266 words)

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