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It's the shape of your language and the uniqueness of your thoughts. Within the context of the time, I was amidst that first wave of singer-songwriters who were changing the shape of popular lyric-writing: Paul Simon, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, The...
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"Their music sounded like a new way to understand who you were, the fact that you weren't just a product of your own willfulness but also a product of the past," he says of the Band, the subject of Mystery Train's most compelling section (although the...
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Funk music pioneer Sly Stone makes his first major public appearance in almost 13 years during a tribute to 'Sly and The Family Stone' at the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in this February 8, 2006 file photo. Stone, the reclusive funk legend... View Photo »
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I'm a huge Sly Stone fan, so I knew that music going in ... The album There's a Riot Goin' On is one of the greatest albums of all time.
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But James's chosen story is rich in insight as well as incident. The players in her private life are worth meeting, and the artist sketches are revealing, whether their subjects are well-chronicled like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Sly Stone, and Ike and...
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I just like to shake things up and breathe some fresh air back into music," the Grammy-nominated musician said in an interview in Parade Magazine. Cee Lo Green said he draws fashion inspiration from performers who have "great showmanship." When it...
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Oil Stadium on February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis. UPI/Kevin Dietsch Published: Feb. 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Grammy-nominated musician Cee Lo Green said he draws fashion inspiration from performers who have "great showmanship." ...
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That year also featured two of the all-time head-scratching Grammy groupings. A tribute to funk pioneer Sly Stone packed the stage with a disparate group that included Joss Stone, John Legend, Fantasia, Maroon 5, Ciara, will.i.am, Aerosmith's Steven...
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American popular song. There was much that was still recognizable in the song, and it was before the age of electronic music. The whole thing was just a major comfort zone. You have all of these amazing songwriters from Carole King to James Taylor to...
About Sly Stone
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Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart on 15 March 1943, in Denton, Texas) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. Sly & the Family Stone was started in San... Full Article
