Sly and the Family Stone didn’t have an easy task in front of them when they stepped onstage at Woodstock. It was 3:30 AM, several hours past their scheduled start time, the grounds were soaked and ...

Musician Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, ...

In the year following the assassinations of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, America was in a constant state of unrest. But then a Bay Area band took the stage at Woodstock as a ...

(Reuters) -Sly Stone, the driving force behind Sly and the Family Stone, a multiracial American band whose boiling mix of rock, soul and psychedelia embodied 1960s idealism and helped popularize funk ...

Music festivals are among the most sacred aspects of the music industry, dating back to the Middle Ages. In the modern era, music festivals have served as weekend-long safe havens for fans of a ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important musicians not only of the rock-soul era — because his music combined both, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” ...

Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, at a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. Officially known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, approximately 500,000 ...

NEW YORK — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and '70s and beyond with such hits as "Everyday People," ...