Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
SYLVESTER STEWART and Sly Stone (OK so you know they're one and the same but the sleeve credits insist this album was written, arranged and produced by Sylvester Stewart and Sly Stone...) have been nurturing this album for two years now and finally we have it.
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