“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that’s articulated in the Hulu documentary by Dream Hampton: ...
“Elvis Presley. Bob Dylan. Lennon & McCartney. And now SLY STONE. The new leader.” So proclaimed an ad that ran in Billboard in April of 1969, essentially proclaiming that it was Sly Stone’s turn to ...
In the wake of Sly Stone’s death at age 82, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid made the case for why Sly and the Family Stone deserve a place at the top of the canon of American bands. Here it is, in ...
Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary. So “Sly Lives!” is a few different things at ...
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