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American musician

Sly Rock
Sly Stone performs with the Family Stone in 2007.
Background information
Birth proper name	Sylvester Stewart
Built-in	(1943-03-15) March 15, 1943 (age 78) Denton, Texas, U.S.
Genres	Funk, psychedelic soul, rock, avant-funk,[1] progressive soul[two]
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, musician, ring leader, record producer
Instruments	Vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica
Years agile	1952–present
Labels	Epic Records, Warner Bros., Cleopatra
Associated acts	Bobby Freeman, Young man Brummels, Joe Piazza and the Continentals, the Viscaynes, Sly and the Family Rock, Bobby Womack
Website	slystonemusic.com

Musical artist

Sylvester Stewart (born March 15, 1943), better known past his stage proper name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and tape producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family unit Stone, playing a disquisitional role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, stone, psychedelia and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. Crawdaddy! has called him "the founder of progressive soul".^[iii]

Born in Texas and raised in the Bay Surface area of Northern California, Stone mastered several instruments at an early on historic period and performed gospel music as a kid with his siblings (and future bandmates) Freddie and Rose. In the mid-1960s, he worked as both a record producer for Autumn Records and a disc jockey for San Francisco radio station KDIA. In 1966, Stone and his blood brother Freddie joined their bands together to course Sly and the Family Stone, a racially integrated, mixed-gender act. The group would score hits including "Dance to the Music" (1968), "Everyday People" (1968), "Thank you (Falettinme Exist Mice Elf Agin)" (1969), "I Desire to Take You lot Higher" (1969) "Family Matter" (1971) and "If You Want Me to Stay" (1973) and acclaimed albums including Stand! (1969), There'due south a Riot Goin' On (1971) and Fresh (1973).

By the mid-1970s, Stone's drug use and erratic beliefs finer ended the group, leaving him to record several unsuccessful solo albums. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the group. He took role in a Sly and the Family Rock tribute at the 2006 Grammy Awards, his showtime live performance since 1987.

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

The Stewart family was a securely religious middle-class household from Denton, Texas. Born March 15, 1943,^[4] before the family had moved to Vallejo, California, in the Due north Bay of the San Francisco Bay Expanse, Sylvester was the second of the family's 5 children.

As part of the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), to which the Stewart family belonged, the parents – K.C and Blastoff Stewart – encouraged musical expression in the household.^[five] Sylvester and his brother Freddie forth with their sisters Rose and Loretta formed "The Stewart 4" as children, performing gospel music in the Church of God in Christ and even recording a unmarried local release 78 rpm single, "On the Battlefield" b/w "Walking in Jesus' Name", in 1952. The eldest sister, Loretta, was the but Stewart child not to pursue a musical career. All of the other Stewart children, including youngest sister Vaetta ("Vet"), would later adopt the surname "Stone" and pursue musical interests.

Sylvester was identified equally a musical prodigy. By the time he was seven, Sylvester had already become expert on the keyboards, and by the historic period of xi, he had mastered the guitar, bass, and drums likewise.^[iv] While still in loftier school, Sylvester had settled primarily on the guitar and joined a number of loftier school bands. One of these was the Viscaynes, a doo-wop group in which Sylvester and his friend Frank Arellano—who was Filipino—were the only not-white members. The fact that the group was integrated made the Viscaynes "hip" in the eyes of their audiences, and would later inspire Sylvester's idea of the multicultural Family Stone. The Viscaynes released a few local singles, including "Xanthous Moon" and "Stop What Y'all Are"; during the same period, Sylvester also recorded a few solo singles under the name Danny Stewart. With his blood brother, Fred, he formed several brusque-lived groups, like the Stewart Bros.^[vi] After high school Stone studied music at the Vallejo campus of Solano Community College.

The nickname Sly was a common i for Sylvester throughout his years in form school. Early, a classmate misspelled his proper name "Slyvester," and e'er since, the nickname followed him.^[iv]

In the mid-1960s, Stone worked every bit a disc jockey for San Francisco, California, soul radio station KSOL, where he included white performers such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in his playlists. During the same period, he worked as a staff tape producer for Autumn Records, producing for predominantly white San Francisco-area bands such as The Boyfriend Brummels, The Mojo Men, Bobby Freeman, and Grace Slick's first band, The Great Lodge.

Stone was influential in guiding KSOL-AM into soul music and started calling the station Grand-SOUL. The 2d was a popular soul music station (sans the M-SOUL moniker), at 107.7 FM (now known equally KSAN). The current KSOL has a different format and is unrelated to the previous two stations. While still providing "music for your listen, body, and your soul" on KSOL, Sly Stone played keyboard for dozens of major performers including Dionne Warwick, Righteous Brothers, Ronettes, Bobby Freeman, George & Teddy, Freddy Cannon, Marvin Gaye, Dick & Dee Dee, Jan & Dean, Gene Chandler, and many more than, including at least 1 of the 3 Twist Political party concerts past then nautical chart topper Chubby Checker held at the Moo-cow Palace in San Francisco in 1962 and 1963. The concerts were put together by "Big Daddy" Tom Donohue and Bobby Mitchell from the and then infamous KYA 1260 AM radio station and largely choreographed by Jerry Marcellino and Mel Larson who went on to produce many Motown artists including Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and some of the top artists of the mean solar day.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 1966, Sly was performing with his band Sly and The Stoners which included Cynthia Robinson on trumpet. His brother Freddie was working with his band called Freddie and the Stone Souls with Greg Errico and Jerry Martini. One night, the 2 stood in a kitchen making the decision to fuse the bands together adding Larry Graham, who had studied music and worked in numerous groups. Working around the Bay Surface area in 1967, this multiracial band fabricated a strong impression. Later, in 1968, Rose Stone joined the band.

Sly and the Family Stone'southward success [edit]

Sly and the Family Rock in 1968

Forth with James Dark-brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family unit Stone were pioneers of late 1960s and early on '70s funk. Their fusion of R&B rhythms, infectious melodies, and psychedelia created a new pop/soul/stone hybrid, the bear on of which has proven lasting and widespread. Motown producer Norman Whitfield, for example, patterned the label'southward forays into harder-driving, socially relevant material (such as The Temptations' "Runaway Child" and "Ball of Confusion") based on their sound. The pioneering precedent of Stone'due south racial, sexual, and stylistic mix, had a major influence in the 1980s on artists such as Prince and Rick James. Legions of artists from the 1990s forwards – including Public Enemy, Fatboy Slim, Beck, Beastie Boys and LL Cool J's popular "Mama Said Knock You Out" along with many others – mined Stone's seminal back catalog for hook-laden samples.^[6]

"The most talented musician I know is Sly Stone," Bootsy Collins said in an interview with Mojo. "He'due south more talented than anybody I always have seen – he's astonishing. I worked with him in Detroit from 1981 to '83, and to run across him simply fooling around, playing, jamming, is a whole other trip. He's the most amazing musician."

After a mildly received debut album, A Whole New Matter (1967), Sly & The Family Stone had their offset hit single with "Trip the light fantastic toe to the Music", which was later included on an album of the same proper name (1968). Although their third album, Life (also 1968), also suffered from depression sales, their fourth album, Stand up! (1969), became a runaway success, selling over 3 1000000 copies and spawning a number ane hitting single, "Everyday People". By the summer of 1969, Sly & The Family Rock were 1 of the biggest names in music, releasing two more acme five singles, "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Give thanks Y'all (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/"Everybody Is a Star", before the end of the year and appearing at Woodstock. During the summer of 1969, Sly and the Family Stone likewise performed at the Summertime of Soul concerts in Harlem and received an enthusiastic response from the large oversupply.

After the group began touring post-obit the success of Dance to the Music, The Family unit Stone drew praise for their explosive alive show, which attracted black and white fans in equal measure out. When Bob Marley first played in the U.S. in 1973 with his band The Wailers, he opened on bout for Sly and The Family Stone.

Personal problems [edit]

With the band's newfound fame and success came numerous bug. Relationships within the band were deteriorating; there was friction in detail between the Stone brothers and Larry Graham.^[7] Epic requested more marketable output.^[eight] The Black Panther Political party demanded that Stone brand his music more militant and more reflective of the black power motion,^[8] supersede Greg Errico and Jerry Martini with black instrumentalists, and supervene upon manager David Kapralik.^[9]

Afterwards moving to the Los Angeles area in fall 1969, Stone and his bandmates became heavy users of illegal drugs, primarily cocaine and PCP.^[10] Equally the members became increasingly focused on drug use and partying (Stone carried a violin case filled with illegal drugs wherever he went),^[11] recording slowed significantly. Between summer 1969 and fall 1971, the band released simply 1 single, "Thank Y'all (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/"Everybody Is a Star", in December 1969. This song was ane of the first recordings to employ the heavy, funky beats that would be featured in the funk music of the following decade. It showcased bass player Larry Graham's innovative percussive playing technique of bass "slapping". Graham later on said that he developed this technique in an earlier band in social club to compensate for that ring'due south lack of a drummer.^[12]

"Thank You" hitting the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in early on 1970. The single as well peaked at No. 5 on the R&B chart, selling over a million copies.^[13]

Having relocated to Los Angeles with his and then girlfriend Deborah King, later Deborah Santana (wife of Carlos Santana from 1973 until filing for divorce in 2007), Stone's behavior became increasingly erratic. Epic was anticipating new cloth in 1970, just with none forthcoming, finally released Greatest Hits that Nov. One year later, the ring'southward fifth album, There'south a Riot Goin' On, was released. Riot featured a much darker audio as most tracks were recorded with overdubbing as opposed to the Family Stone all playing at the same time equally they had done previously. Stone played most of the parts himself and performed more of the lead vocals than usual. This was one of the first major label albums to feature a drum car.

The band'due south cohesion slowly began to erode, and its sales and popularity began to reject equally well. Errico withdrew from the grouping in 1971 and was eventually replaced with Andy Newmark. Larry Graham and Stone were no longer on friendly terms, and Graham was fired in early 1972 and replaced with Rustee Allen. The band'south later releases, Fresh (1973) and Pocket-size Talk (1974), featured even less of the ring and more of Stone.

Live bookings for Sly & the Family unit Stone had steadily dropped since 1970, considering promoters were afraid that Stone or one of the band members might miss the gig, turn down to play, or pass out from drug use.^[14] These issues were regular occurrences for the band during the 1970s, and had an agin outcome on their ability to demand money for live bookings.^[14] In 1970, 26 of 80 concerts were cancelled, and numerous others started late. At many of these gigs, concertgoers rioted if the ring failed to bear witness up, or if Stone walked out before finishing his set. Ken Roberts became the group's promoter, and after their general director, when no other representatives would work with the band because of their erratic gig attendance tape.^[15] In January 1975, the band booked itself at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The famed music hall was only one-eighth occupied, and Stone and company had to scrape together money to return home.^[sixteen] Following the Radio City date, the band was dissolved.^[16]

Rose Stone was pulled out of the ring past Bubba Banks, who was by then her husband. She began a solo career, recording a Motown-mode album nether the proper name Rose Banks in 1976. Freddie Stone joined Larry Graham's grouping, Graham Key Station, for a time; subsequently collaborating with his brother 1 concluding fourth dimension in 1979 for Back on the Correct Rail, he retired from the music industry and eventually became the pastor of the Evangelist Temple Fellowship Center in Vallejo, California. Little Sister was too dissolved; Mary McCreary married Leon Russell and released recordings on Russell's Shelter Records label.^[17] Andy Newmark became a successful session drummer, playing with John Lennon, Roxy Music, B. B. King, Steve Winwood and others.^[18]

Later years [edit]

Stone went on to record four more albums as a solo creative person (only High on Y'all (1975) was released under just his name; the other iii were released under the "Sly & The Family Stone" name). In 1976, Stone assembled a new Family Stone and released Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'yard Back. 1979's Back on the Right Runway followed, and in 1982 Own't But the One Manner was released, which began as a collaborative anthology with George Clinton, but was scrapped and afterwards completed by producer Stewart Levine for release. None of these afterward albums accomplished much success.

Stone as well collaborated with Funkadelic on The Electrical Spanking of War Babies (1981), but was unable to reinvigorate his career. In the early on 1980s Sly Stone was also office of a George Clinton/Funkadelic family projection with Muruga Booker called "The Soda Jerks," who recorded an anthology worth of fabric, of which only i song has been released. However, Muruga still has plans to release the material from the project.

In June 1983, Stone was arrested and charged with cocaine possession in Fort Myers, Florida.^[19]

Rock managed to do a brusk tour with Bobby Womack in the summer of 1984, and he continued to make sporadic appearances on compilations and other artists' records. In 1986, Rock was featured on a track from Jesse Johnson's album Shockadelica called "Crazay". The music video featured Stone on keyboards and vocals, and received some airplay on the BET music network.

In 1987, Stone released a single, "Eek-a-Boo Static Automated", from the Soul Man soundtrack, and the song "I'm the Infiltrator" from the Infiltrator soundtrack. He besides co-wrote and co-produced "Simply Similar A Teeter-Totter," which appeared on a Bar-Kays album from 1989. From 1988 to 1989 Sly Rock wrote and produced a collection of unreleased recordings in his habitation studio in New Jersey, "Coming Back for More" and "Merely Like A Teeter-Totter" are a part of that collection of nigh xx songs.

In 1990, he gave an energetic song performance on the Earth, Wind and Fire vocal, "Proficient Time." In 1991, he appeared on a encompass of "Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Adverse)" performed past the Japanese band 13CATS, and shared lead vocals with Bobby Womack on "When the Weekend Comes" from Womack's 1993 album I Nevertheless Love Yous.

In 1992, Sly and the Family Stone appeared on the Red Hot Organization'south dance compilation album, Red Hot + Dance, contributing an original rail,"Thank You lot (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Adverse) (Todds CD Mix)." The anthology attempted to raise awareness and money in support of the AIDS epidemic, and all proceeds were donated to AIDS charities.

In 1995, ex-landlord Chase Mellon III defendant Stone of trashing the Beverly Hills mansion Mellon rented to him in 1993. Mellon says that he found bathrooms smeared with gold paint, marble floors blackened, windows broken and a gaunt Stone emerging from a guest business firm to say, "You're spying on me." Sly Jr., and so studying to exist a recording engineer, told People, "Nobody purposely destroyed the firm. I'd thrown parties. My dad had a few go-togethers. We weren't aware of the damage." The damage, however, was not just superficial. "Sly never grew out of drugs," says ex-married woman Silva. "He lost his courage and destroyed his future."^[nineteen]

His final major public appearance until 2006 was during the 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame consecration ceremony where Stone showed up onstage to exist entered into the Hall of Fame forth with the Family Stone. In 2003, the other six members of the original Family Stone entered the studio to tape a new album. Stone was invited to participate, but declined.

"I feel like Sly just doesn't wanna deal with it no more," Bootsy Collins told Mojo. "It's like he's had it – it ain't no fun no more. It'due south a curse and a approving. The curse part of it is the business y'all have to deal with, and so the blessing part is yous get to exist a musician and take fun…"

A few home-studio recordings (nearly likely from the tardily 1980s) with Rock's vocalization and keyboards over a drum machine have made their way onto a bootleg. 1 Rock-penned demo called "Coming Back for More" appears to be autobiographical and includes the verse: "Been and so high, I touched the sky and the sky says 'Sly, why you tryin' to go by?' Comin' back for more." His son, Sylvester Stewart Jr., told People Magazine in 1997 that his father had composed an album's worth of textile, including a tribute to Miles Davis chosen "Miles and Miles."

On August 15, 2005, Stone drove his younger sis Vet Rock on his motorbike to Los Angeles' Knitting Factory, where Vet was performing with her Sly & the Family Rock tribute band, the Phunk Phamily Affair. Stone kept his helmet on during the unabridged operation, and was described by one concertgoer as looking a little like Bootsy Collins. A film crew doing a documentary on Sly & the Family unit Stone, later released every bit On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone, was at the show and captured this rare sighting on film. Stone, according to his web site, is producing and writing material for the grouping's new anthology. In addition, Rock renamed the grouping "Family Stone."

In 2009, the documentary flick Coming Dorsum for More detailed his dire fiscal situation.^[20]

Rock filed suit confronting Jerry Goldstein, the quondam manager of Sly and the Family Stone for $l million in January 2010. The litigation claimed that Goldstein had used fraudulent practices to convince him to deliver the rights to his songs to Goldstein. In the suit, he fabricated the aforementioned merits about the Sly and the Family Stone trademark.^[21] Goldstein filed a countersuit for slander post-obit a rant by Stone at the Coachella Festival.^[22] In January 2015, a Los Angeles jury ruled in favor of Stone, awarding him $5 1000000.^[23] However, in Dec 2015, a superior court judge ruled that Rock would not be able to collect the royalties because he had previously assigned them to a product company.^[24]

On September 25, 2011, the New York Mail service reported that Sly Stone was now homeless and living out of a white camper-van in Los Angeles: "The van is parked on a residential street in Crenshaw, the rough Los Angeles neighborhood where Boyz n the Hood was set. A retired couple makes sure he eats one time a twenty-four hour period, and Stone showers at their house."^[25]

Mid-2000s tributes [edit]

A Sly and the Family Stone tribute took place at the 2006 Grammy Awards on Feb 8, 2006, at which Stone gave his first alive musical functioning since 1987. Sly and the original Family Stone lineup (minus Larry Graham) performed briefly during a tribute to the band, for which the headliners included Steven Tyler, John Legend, Van Hunt, Nile Rodgers and Robert Randolph. Sporting an enormous blonde mohawk, thick sunglasses, a "Sly" beltbuckle and a silver lamé suit, he joined in on "I Want To Take Yous Higher." Hunched over the keyboards, he wore a cast on his correct paw (the result of a recent motorcycle mishap), and a hunched back caused him to look downwardly through most of the functioning. His vox, though strong, was barely aural over the product. Stone walked to the front of the phase toward the end of the functioning, sang a verse, and then, with a wave to the audience, sauntered offstage before the vocal was over.^[26] "He went up the ramp [exterior the theater], got on a motorcycle and took off," Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of the Grammy Awards testify, told the Chicago Sun-Times. Ehrlich said Stone refused to leave his hotel room until he was given a law escort to the prove so waited in his car until the performance began.

A Sly and the Family unit Stone tribute album, Dissimilar Strokes by Different Folks, was released on July 12, 2005, past Starbucks' Hear Music characterization, and on Feb 7, 2006, by Ballsy Records. The projection features both cover versions of the ring'southward songs and songs which sample the original recordings. Amidst the artists for the set up are The Roots ("Star", which samples "Everybody is a Star"), Maroon 5 and Ciara ("Everyday People"), John Legend, Joss Stone and Van Hunt ("Family Affair"), The Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am ("Dance to the Music"), and Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Robert Randolph ("I Want to Accept You College"). Epic Records' version of the tribute album, which included two additional covers ("Don't Telephone call Me Nigger, Whitey" and "Cheers (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)") was released in January 2006.^[27]

Re-emergence [edit]

On Sunday, January 14, 2007, Rock fabricated a brusk guest appearance at a show of The New Family Stone band he supports at the House of Blues.

On April ane, 2007, Stone appeared with the Family Stone at the Flamingo Las Vegas Showroom, after George Wallace'southward standup human action.^[28]

On July 7, 2007, Stone made a curt appearance with the Family Stone at the San Jose Summerfest. He sang "Sing a Simple Song" and "If Y'all Want Me to Stay," and walked off phase before the cease of "Higher". Stone cutting the prepare short, in role, considering the band began their fix over 90 minutes late and had to finish earlier a certain time. While many blamed Stone for this incident, others believed that the promoter was at error.

The aforementioned scenes were repeated at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 13, 2007, with over half the sold-out venue walking out in disgust even earlier than his stage exit. The same happened once more one day afterward at the Blueish Annotation Records Festival in Ghent, Belgium. At that place he left the stage later on saying to the audience that "when waking up this forenoon he realized he was old, and and then he needed to have a break now". He did the same again one day later, performing at the North Bounding main Jazz Festival.

Equally the tour progressed, however, Rock seemed to be more than confident and blithe, often dancing and engaging the audition. He performed "Stand", "I Want To Take You lot College", "Sing A Simple Vocal", "If Yous Want Me To Stay", and "Cheers (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", which at one indicate morphed into "Thank you For Talkin' To Me Africa", a runway rarely performed in public. But the show was marred by sound bug and the vocals were barely audible through much of the show.

On Oct 17, 2008, Sly played with the Family Stone at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, CA. He played a 22-minute set and ventured offstage, telling the oversupply "I gotta go have a piss. I'll be right dorsum." He never returned.^[29] On Memorial Day, May 25, 2009, Rock re-emerged over again, granting an hr-long interview with KCRW-FM, a Los Angeles NPR affiliate, to discuss his life and career.

On August 18, 2009, The Guardian reported that a forthcoming documentary, Coming Back for More by Dutch manager Willem Alkema, claims Rock is homeless and living off welfare while staying in cheap hotels and a camper van. The film alleges that Rock'southward former manager, Jerry Goldstein, cut off his access to royalty payments following a dispute over a 'debt agreement', forcing Stone to depend on welfare payments.^[30] On September 25, 2011, Alkema wrote in the New York Post that Stone was homeless and living in a van in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles.^[31]

On Labor Twenty-four hour period, September seven, 2009, Stone appeared at the 20th annual African Festival of the Arts in Chicago, Ill. He performed a 15-minute set during George Clinton's performance. He performed his popular hits along with George Clinton's band. He left immediately afterward his short performance.

On Dec 6, 2009, Stone signed a new recording contract with the LA-based Cleopatra Records and on August 16, 2011, I'm Dorsum! Family unit & Friends was released, his outset album since 1982'south Own't Only the One Way. The album features re-recorded versions of Sly & the Family Stone hits with invitee appearances from Jeff Beck, Ray Manzarek, Bootsy Collins, Ann Wilson, Carmine Appice and Johnny Winter, as well as three previously unreleased songs.

Stone has appeared in afterward years with George Clinton and performed with his girl Novena's band, Babe Rock.

In January 2015, Sly Stone, along with four of his bandmates, appeared at a convention dedicated to honoring the band and its legacy. Called LOVE CITY CONVENTION, information technology occurred in Oakland at the Den Lounge inside the Flim-flam Oakland Theater. Sly was in good spirits, answered questions from fans, and signed autographs.

Stone sued his former managers in 2010, accusing them of cheating him out of years' worth of royalty payments for the songs he had written. He testified that he had not been paid any royalties between 1989 and 2009. A jury in Los Angeles awarded him $5 meg in damages in Jan 2015, but in December the award was overturned because, the appellate court ruled, the trial gauge had not told the jury to take into account the fact Stone had assigned his royalties to a production visitor in exchange for a 50% buying stake. In May 2016, Stone's attorneys appealed that decision.^{[32] [33] [34]}

Personal life [edit]

Stone and producer Terry Melcher spent fourth dimension together at Melcher's domicile in the late 1960s, and on more than one occasion Stone saw Charles Manson there.^[35] According to Rock in a 2009 interview with LA Weekly'due south Randall Roberts, he was once at Melcher's abode playing music and had a small disagreement with Manson there, though Stone did not know who Manson was at the time.^[36] Rock met Melcher'southward mother, Doris Day, through Melcher when Rock was interested in an old car that he thought 1 of them owned. When he met Solar day, he told her how much he liked her song "Whatever Volition Be, Volition Be," and they sat at the piano and sang it. Subsequently that, a rumor spread that Stone and Day were involved romantically.^{[37] [38]}

Stone married model-extra Kathy Silva on June v, 1974, during a sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden.^[39] Their outfits were designed by Halston. They made elaborate plans for a laser-low-cal prove, a real-life "angel" flying on wires dropping gold glitter all over the crowd, and for thousands of doves to be released. The ASPCA threatened a lawsuit, which kept the doves from flying, and the Garden wouldn't permit the human "angel" fly unless Stone and company posted a $125,000 security bond. They declined to pay the fee, and also opted non to pay for the 200 extra security guards the venue demanded in order to allow the wedding party to stage a processional right through the audition.^[40]

They separated in 1976 afterwards their son was mauled by Rock's canis familiaris.^[41] Silva later told People magazine. "I didn't desire that world of drugs and weirdness." Still, she remembers, "He'd write me a song or promise to change, and I'd try once more. We were e'er fighting, then getting back together."^[19]

Children [edit]

Sylvester Jr., was born late 1973. His female parent is Kathy Silva.^[42] Sylvyette, born c. 1976. Her female parent was Cynthia Robinson (1944–2015).^[43] Novena Carmel, born c. 1982, is a singer and performer and also a booking agent at the Picayune Temple social club in Los Angeles, now known as The Virgil, and currently a co-host for the pop public radio station KCRW on Morning Becomes Eclectic. She too worked with pop/hip hop musician Wallpaper.

Family [edit]

Stone's cousin is Moses Tyson, Jr., who is a gospel musician and organist.

Discography [edit]

• 1967: A Whole New Affair
• 1968: Dance to the Music
• 1968: Life
• 1969: Stand!
• 1970: Greatest Hits (It includes hit singles unreleased on any album: "Everybody Is a Star", "Hot Fun in the Summer", "Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)")
• 1971: In that location's a Riot Goin' On
• 1973: Fresh
• 1974: Small Talk
• 1975: High on Y'all (credited simply to "Sly Stone")
• 1976: Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back
• 1979: Back on the Right Track
• 1982: Ain't simply the Ane Fashion
• 2009: The Woodstock Experience (Live compilation)
• 2011: I'm Back! Family unit & Friends (credited only to "Sly Stone")

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Notes [edit]

• Lewis, Miles Marshall (2006). There's a Anarchism Goin' On. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1744-2.
• Kamp, David. "Sly Rock'due south Higher Ability." Vanity Fair. Conde Nast, Aug. 2007.
• Kiersh, Edward (December 1985), Sly Stone'southward Heart of Darkness, Spin Mag
• Selvin, Joel (1998). For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. New York: Quill Publishing. ISBN 0-380-79377-vi.
• Kaliss, Jeff (2008). I Want to Accept You College: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family unit Rock. New York: Hal Leonard/Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-934-2.

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