Sly Stone

He'd been battling COPD and other underlying health issues for some time.

The band's former drummer, Alan Gratzer, shares the story with UCR.

"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America."

Producers of 'Sly Lives!' say their film is “an empathetic human story about the cost of genius.”

They wanted coke but couldn’t afford to buy any.

He insists his reputation for being unreliable on tour “wasn’t fair.”

The funk rock masterpiece that went on sale was very different from the one reviewers previously heard.

'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)' will arrive in October.

She only needed 20 minutes in the “magic room” to write the Fleetwood Mac classic.

If any single album summed up the mood of 1971 in 45 minutes, it was this one.