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Sly and the Family Stone: Stand!

Barney Hoskyns, Sony Legacy, Spring 2007

IT'S A MEASURE of our fascination with the darker side of pop culture that Stand! now tends to take second stage to 1971's claustrophobic, coke-fuelled There's A Riot Goin' On in any serious discussion of Sly and the Family Stone's achievements.

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