{"id":38781,"date":"2025-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38781"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:44:51","slug":"sly-lives-2025-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38781","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sly Lives&#8221; (2025) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z042225zview_slylives.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sly Lives <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Questlove<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sly Stone, Greg Errico<\/strong><strong>, Larry Graham, Jerry Martini, Vernon Reid, D&#8217;Angelo, Cynthia Robinson, Clive Davis, Jimmy Jam, Nile Rodgers, Terry Lewis, Andr\u00e9 3000, George Clinton \u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Chaka Khan<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Baited&#8230;by a million dollars &#8211; and all they had to do was REACH!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follows the rise and fall of Sly Stone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the age of 19, Sly Stone (whose real name was Sylvester Stewart) was a popular LA disc jokey and record producer.\u00a0 He started the group <em>Sly and the Family Stone<\/em>.\u00a0 At the time they were unique because of the group&#8217;s make-up (men and women, multiple races).\u00a0 Sly wrote and produced many of their songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of <em>Sly and the Family Stone<\/em> hits include: <em>Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Stand!, I Want to Take You Higher, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)<\/em> and <em>Everybody Is a Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The band&#8217;s popularity was on the rise, they were selling out concerts with multiple hit records and then Sly became addicted to drugs.\u00a0 This led to him being late or even missing show dates.\u00a0 His output dwindled along with the band&#8217;s popularity.\u00a0 Multiple drug arrests, the breakup of the band and continued drug dependency&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet, Sly Stone&#8217;s music stood the test of time.\u00a0<em> Sly and the Family Stone<\/em> influenced many other bands of the era.\u00a0 A younger generation of song writers discovered and sampled his music.\u00a0 It took years but Sly Stone finally got his life together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sly Lives!<\/em> is an excellent documentary that presents the life and career of Sly Stone&#8230; warts and all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Sly Lives <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z042225zview_slylives2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sly Lives (2025) Director:\u00a0 Questlove Stars: Sly Stone, Greg Errico, Larry Graham, Jerry Martini, Vernon Reid, D&#8217;Angelo, Cynthia Robinson, Clive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,64,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38782,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781\/revisions\/38782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}