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Sly Stone’s family announced that he died today.\u00a0 The cause of death was said to be COPD and other underlying health issues. Mr. Stone was 82.<\/p>\n
At the age of 19, Sly Stone (whose real name was Sylvester Stewart) was a popular LA disc jokey and record producer. Along with his brother, Sly started the band Sly and the Family Stone. At the time the group was unique because of its make-up (men and women, multiple races). Sly wrote and produced many of their songs.<\/p>\n
Sly and the Family Stone\u2019s popularity was on the rise.\u00a0 They were selling out concerts.\u00a0 They had multiple hit records. Then Sly became addicted to drugs. This led to him being late or even missing show dates. His output dwindled.\u00a0 So did the band\u2019s popularity. Multiple drug arrests, the breakup of the band and continued drug dependency followed.<\/p>\n
Yet, Sly Stone\u2019s music stood the test of time.\u00a0 Sly and the Family Stone hits include: 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 Everybody Is a Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sly and the Family Stone influenced many other bands of the era. Then a younger generation of song writers discovered and sampled his music. It took years but Sly Stone finally got his life together.<\/p>\n The first song that I remember hearing from Sly and the Family Stone was Dance to the Music<\/em>.\u00a0 Of course that was the band’s first hit. If you’re the right age, it was probably the song that introduced you to the band too.<\/p>\n My sentimental favorite of Sly Stone’s songs is Family Affair<\/em>.\u00a0 I was riding in the car with my grandfather.\u00a0 I was probably 13.\u00a0 Family Affair<\/em> came on the radio.\u00a0 I was bopping to it and my grandpa started singing mimicking Sly Stone’s deep voice… “It’s a family affair!”\u00a0 I busted out laughing.\u00a0 So did he.\u00a0 What a great memory.<\/p>\n It’s unfortunate that drugs shortened Sly Stone’s career.\u00a0 But not even years of struggle could cancel out Sly Stone’s impact.\u00a0 I’m glad that Sly Stone is remembered for the genius he was.<\/p>\n Out thoughts and prayers go out to Sly Stone’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sly Stone’s family announced that he died today.\u00a0 The cause of death was said to be COPD and other underlying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-music","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39071","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=39071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39072,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39071\/revisions\/39072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}