Sly & the Family Stone
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Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, November 1974
BY SLY'S SLUGGISH standards, it's not that long since the last album, Fresh; maybe married life has given him a creative surge. ...
Sly and the Family Stone: Bournemouth Opera House
Live Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, August 2007
YOU'RE A LIFE-LONG fan of a band that fell apart long before you were old enough to see them play. Suddenly, you hear that the ...
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Clubs Give Sly And Family First Hit
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 July 1968
ANOTHER example of discotheques and clubs turning a little-known group into a hit outfit comes in the shape of Sly and the Family Stone who ...
Sly and Family Stone... in a crazy world of their own!
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
THEY BLEND PSYCHEDELIA WITH RHYTHM AND BLUES ...
"The Topless Came In So I Quit, Says Sly.."
Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 24 August 1968
IT’S NOT every group that can boast a girl trumpeter, but Sly and the Family Stone can — and do. An unusual feature in what ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Sly Buries Underground And Has Fun!
Profile and Interview by June Harris, New Musical Express, 24 August 1968
YOU'LL JUST love Sly and the Family Stone when you see them next month. They're what I call a fun group, who get a kick ...
Sly To Put a Core in the Apple
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 31 August 1968
TO STAMP OUT MUSICAL DEFICIENCY COME SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE ...
Topless Dancers Drove Me Out says Sly of the Family Stone
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 September 1968
TOPLESS DANCERS and the resultant craze in San Francisco became so too much for a young musician that he left his job, became a record ...
BANNED! Top Of The Pops Drop Sly & The Family Stone
Report and Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 21 September 1968
SLY AND The Family Stone, still a chart force with 'Dance To The Music', were supposed to appear on BBC-TV's Top Of The Pops last ...
Sly and the Family Stone: Dance to the Music (Direction)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
SLY AMD FAMILY — THE NEW LEADERS ...
Sly & The Family Stone: 'Everyday People' (Direction)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 January 1969
IT WAS A pity their first British visit was such a mess up, for Sly and Co seem like a most unusual and interesting group, ...
Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 19 July 1969
NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. ...
New albums from Sly & the Family Stone, Quicksilver et al
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969
New Sly & Family Stone LP begins where other R&B LP's leave off ...
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 18 August 1969
Rock Audience Moves to Dusk-to-Dawn Rhythms ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 20 September 1969
Sound Troubles: Monterey Opens Weirdly ...
Sly & the Family Stone, Grand Funk Railroad: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 February 1970
Sly and Family Survive Rush Down the Garden Paths ...
Sly Stone: Stone Too Sick to Rock
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 February 1970
Refunds Available ...
Woodstock (Import Cotillion SD3-500)
Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970
BONUS TRACKS ON WOODSTOCK GIANT ...
Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970
Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love
Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, 10 September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...
Interview by Roy Carr, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 September 1970
Put to him by Richard Green and Roy Carr ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 26 September 1970
Sly and Family Stone send Lyceum ravers berserk ...
Coke-and-lemon beat and smiles for one whole hour
Live Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970
Having moaned so long about the failure of British radio, TV, and record buyers to give the due recognition to black singers, I suppose I ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Lyceum Ballroom, London
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 9 October 1970
THE APPEARANCE in London of the much-heralded exponents and instigators of psychedelic soul – only their second ever British date; the first being at the ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Cobo Hall, Detroit
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 November 1970
YOU HATE to admit that a man who put you off three times and thus openly displayed his lack of interest in you, turned out ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 29 November 1970
RHYTHM AND SOUL FILL ROCK WEEKEND ...
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Creem, December 1970
DETROIT —SLY was due in for a concert November 15 and the word was out that he was gonna show. Not an unusual word, to ...
Sly & the Family Stone, Pacific Gas & Electric: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 12 December 1970
Sly — Master of Rock-Theater ...
Sly Stone: An Obnoxious Great Musician
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 20 December 1970
SLY STONE mumbles. This is not unique; many big-name rock stars mumble and are incoherent. ...
Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1971
Ike and Tina Turner: Hammersmith Odeon, LondonSly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hits (Epic) ...
Soul Brothers: Al Green, Sly Stone, Van Morrison
Review by Charlie Gillett, Cream, January 1972
IS THE REVIEWER supposed to come to each record as an objective analyst? Or, if he isn’t one, must he pretend he is? Impossible for ...
Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Review by 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 ...
Sly Stone & the Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Review by John Morthland, Creem, February 1972
AS MANY HAVE noted, Sly Stone's style revolves around so many factors that it may, paradoxically enough, be as limited as it is ground-breaking. Combine ...
Not Only Sly, But Sometimes Just Plain Damn Evasive
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 29 July 1972
ROY CARR talks to Sly Stone — why he missed Bardney and other tales ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Fresh (Epic)
Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 12 May 1973
SLY IS AN interesting enigma. Top soul dj-turned-musician, he singlehandedly influenced the course of soul music with a sound that owed more to acid than ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Fresh (Epic Records KE 32134, $5.98)
Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 13 June 1973
Sly's New Album ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Fresh (Epic)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 June 1973
I LIKE A little mystery, don't you? 'Course you do. So here's one: the finished version of Sly's new album, in the shops at last, ...
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 10 July 1973
FANS SAY 'LONGER' TO SLY'S 'HIGHER' No Encore After the Glitter — Wild West Show on Bill ...
The Kinks: Thank you for the days, Ray
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
ROY HOLLINGWORTH adds a sad chapter to the Kinks chronicle ...
Wet City: Sly and Company Live in London
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
LIKE THE WEATHER, the music at London’s White City on Sunday was a mixture of fair and foul. ...
Sly Stone: Shy Boy Who Had Power
Report and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 28 July 1973
TAKE A look at that feller in the picture. Pretty smart, eh? A nice-looking geezer, beautiful soft rubbery face with a sleepy, foxy smile that ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 3 August 1973
WHEN ONE interviews Sly Stewart, it's not so much an interview — it's more a case of throwing a question into a computer and coming ...
Sly & The Family Stone: White City, London
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 3 August 1973
"SLY STONE to appear at White City Festival". After reading various articles concerning Sly Stone, you imagine the feeling of reading this headline. ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Fresh (Epic)
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, September 1973
Sly Today: Caring, Confident, Contradictions ...
Sly & The Family Stone: The Palladium, Los Angeles
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 10 November 1973
HOLLYWOOD: Will he? Won't he? Will he? Won't he? Sly Stone's reputation is too firmly etched for these questions not to be asked when he's ...
Sly & The Family Stone: The Palladium, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 17 November 1973
IT LOOKS as if Sly Stone has changed his ways. During a rash of appearances here in the Lost City (a TV taping and two ...
Larry Graham Has Left the Shadow of the Family Behind
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 January 1974
SOME PEOPLE might call Larry Graham cocky. The 27-year-old soul musician seethes with talent and finally has the means to unleash it. No doubt he ...
Stevie Wonder: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by John Swenson, The Village Voice, 11 April 1974
In synch with the shaman ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 June 1974
HE EXTENDED A HAND but looked elsewhere. Who could tell where his eyes focused beneath those silver shades? He gripped and I felt pain through ...
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 15 June 1974
THE EVER-unpredictable Sly Stone married the mother of his nine-month-old son in front of 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday evening. ...
Review by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, August 1974
THIS RECORD IS more to be appreciated in the mind than enjoyed by the ears – at least when this particular mind and set of ...
Sly Stone Finds Domestic Bliss with Small Talk
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, September 1974
Two years ago, Sly Stone's future looked bleak. Now, after an acclaimed album, a woman, and a son have come his way, Sly's entire life ...
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
Stevie & Sly: Invention and Pretension ...
Introducing Graham Central Station
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 November 1974
Leader Larry Graham, bass player with Sly's original Family Stone, outlines the formation and progress of this happening group. ...
Larry Graham: Platform For Station
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 January 1975
OAKLAND: Few people can ever have listened to a Sly Stone record without experiencing a gut feeling as the bass guitar runs through its paces, ...
If You Don't Believe Sly's Sinking...
Report by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 8 February 1975
...Look what a hole he's in. From New York VERNON GIBBS reports on the man's present crises, and on funk acts Kool, BT Express, and ...
Larry Graham: With Sly as a friend you don' need enemies
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 8 February 1975
SO GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION RUNS TO SCHEDULE... ...
Sly Stone: Sly and the Devil Was Walking Side by Side
Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 June 1976
...and on a clear day you could even tell which was which. NICK KENT reads Sylvester Stewart's musical palm and sifts out the rumours behind ...
Sly Stone: Back On The Right Track/Sly & the Family Stone: Ten Years Too Soon
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 3 November 1979
FILED SIDE by side, those titles read like the bookends of a wasted decade. In their predictably loud, plain language they seem to say that ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 24 January 1980
It's too late to stop now ...
Bobby Womack, Sly Stone: Beacon Theatre, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 18 August 1984
SOUL SONIC FORCE ...
Profile by Simon Witter, i-D, January 1988
Sly Stone, one of the first and greatest international black superstars, has survived unimaginable amounts of sex and drugs to be with us today. As ...
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 20 May 1991
Barney Hoskyns on the continuing power struggle between black and white influences in popular music ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, December 1995
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Profile by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1996
THE DAY HE GETS OUT of the hospital from his third suicide attempt, Dave Kapralik is ready to try to snuff himself again. He's got ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Introduction & Voices ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter I: A Little Prince ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 2: Really A Rhythm and Blues Cat ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 3: Boys, Girls, Black, White ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 4: Pussycat à Go Go, Electric Circus ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 5: Playing Toilets ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 6: As Big As Life ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 7: There Is Going To Be a Riot ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 8: Guns And Dogs ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 9: Sly's Last Chance ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 10: Time To Go ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 11: Only Kidding ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Chapter 12: Nobody Believed Anymore ...
On The Record: Sly & the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, Simon & Schuster, July 1997
Discography ...
Rock 100: Sly and the Family Stone
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
JIMI HENDRIX WAS THE FIRST BLACK TO PLAY acid rock, but he remained a black musician playing to white audiences; he did not get played ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Lucifer Rising
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, MOJO, August 2001
THE ENGLISH TUDOR MANSION AT 783 BELAIR ROAD HAD BEEN built for Jeanette MacDonald, the Hollywood screen actress who starred in all those '30s operettas ...
Sly Stone: Back On The Right Track*** and Ain't But The One Way*** (Warner)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
REISSUE OF Sylvester Stewart's last two albums to date ...
Essay by James Maycock, Nine, October 2002
A look at how black pimp culture has crossed into black popular culture, for which I interviewed Antonio Fargas. I refer to Miles Davis, the ...
Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2003
THE COVER SAYS it all. An American flag, the stars replaced by white flowers on a black backdrop, the stripes soiled by a brown stain, ...
Looking at the Devil: Sly Stone and There's a Riot Goin' On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, March 2006
DICK CAVETT didn't know what had hit him. The mild-mannered, impeccably liberal TV host had had some far-out guests on his ABC talk show, but ...
Sly Stone: I Want To Take You... Lower
Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 15 July 2007
Sly Stone was the funkadelic pioneer who made the world dance, broke racial boundaries, raised hell and set Woodstock alight. Last week, in Italy, after ...
Profile and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, August 2007
Sly Stone vanished into rumor in the 1980s, remembered only by the great songs ('I Want to Take You Higher', 'Dance to the Music') he ...
Sly and the Family Stone: Stand!
Sleeve notes by 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 ...
Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On
Review by Stevie Chick, bbc.co.uk, 2009
Dark, troubled and brilliant funk from kaleidoscopic soul-rock legends ...
Sly Stone: Listen To the Voices – Sly Stone In The Studio 1965-1970 (Ace)
Review by Andy Gill, The Word, May 2010
Sly Stone's pharmaceutical habits attracted an undue level of bad press, but the studio would always be a place of refuge. ...
Larry Graham: Soul Secrets of a Family Man
Interview by Paul Sexton, Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2012
The co-founder of funk pioneers Sly and the Family Stone Larry Graham tells Paul Sexton of stardom, survival, and his new group Graham Central Station. ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Still All the Way Live
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 29 July 2015
BACK IN 1967, when funky trumpeter Cynthia Robinson joined forces with musical visionary Sly Stone, most "girls" in band units wore pretty dresses and harmonized ...
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