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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...

For a roughly half a decade spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sly Stone, who died on Monday at age 82, commandeered the direction of popular music in a way that few artists had before him and ...