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Sly Stone NEVER Cancels!

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 be sure, save in the case of one Sylvester Stewart. But Sly and The Family Stone, notoriously late and no-show, are always in doubt up to the moment their dynamic presence is felt on the stage.

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