Funk-Rock Pioneer Sly Stone Dies

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Questlove said, "One of the strongest quotes from the movie is that Sly created the alphabet that we are still using to express music. He was the first to take advantage of being a bedroom musician, multi-track recording, the wah-wah, the drum machine, and doing everything by himself. We praise Stevie Wonder and Prince for these things, but Sly was the prototype. He also single-handedly revived hip-hop with all of the samples that came from him."

"Sly's sound was totally integrated, not just musically, but sexually and racially," critic Dave Marsh wrote in "The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll." "Here was a band in which men and women, black and white, had not one fixed role but many fluid ones. The women played, the men sang, the blacks freaked out, the whites got funky, everyone did something unexpected, which was the only thing the listener could expect."

Thank You - Sly and the Family Stone | The Midnight Special August 9, 1974

#1 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-06-09 07:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (1968)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Verse 1]
Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in

[Chorus]
I am everyday people, yeah, yeah

[Verse 1]
There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
For living with a fat one, trying to be a skinny one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby

[Refrain]
Ooh, sha-sha
We got to live together (Ooh, sha-sha)

[Verse 2]
I am no better and neither are you
We are the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in

[Chorus]
I am everyday people, yeah, yeah

[Verse 3]
There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair
For being such a rich one that will not help the poor one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby

[Refrain]
Ooh, sha-sha
We got to live together (Ooh, sha-sha)

[Verse 4]
There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one
That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby

[Chorus]
Ooh, sha-sha
I am everyday people (Ooh, sha-sha)
...

Thank-you for the great music, Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a., Sly Stone.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-10 12:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2 Lamplighter Everyday People is my favorite song of theirs. I loved their music, his music. RIP Sly Stone.

#3 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2025-06-10 05:05 PM | Reply

They has some other great hits, and a lot of good music:

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Fav title though was, 'Loose Booty'.

RIP

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-10 05:33 PM | Reply

@#3

Yeah, I've enjoyed their music since their beginning.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-10 06:17 PM | Reply