Sly Stone is DEAD TO ME!!!

I'm surprised a lot of these 60s and 70s rockers live so long considering the lifestyle back then.

But somehow Keith fucking Richards, who did ALL THE DRUGS and smoked like a chimney, is 81 and still going strong. He only quit smoking 5 years ago.

Will his funeral be public, or will it just be a family affair?

I’m not going to lie, I thought he had already died.

There's a brand new doc out about him from Questlove.

R3 Same.

Damn. Great talent. Too bad he burned out so quickly. Sly and the Family Stone is part of a playlist that I listen to often

For someone who dressed so flashy, there was still a modesty / dignity about him that is sorely lacking in today's celebrities. Now get off my lawn.

The eye of the tiger is crying.

Time for folks to Stand!

I loved their debut album. Loved it. He was highly addicted to drugs

R1 genetics. My stepfather smoked 1-2 packs a day since he was 8 years old (yes, 8). He only quit recently. He’s healthy as a horse still.

Meanwhile I have health issues and try taking care of myself.

You beat me to it, R11.

Anybody who went through what Sly Stone went through and lived to tell about it to the ripe old age of 82 must have some first class genetics.

He reminded us to keep it casual and groovy in the 80s as well ❤️

I wonder if Sly will be late for his own funeral.

He had a habit of being very late or a no-show for his concerts, which is why his credibility with promoters sank like a stone.

Madonna might be able to get away with that shit, but Sly was never on the same level of a performer as Madonna.

A true music legend. RIP, Sly.

Wow, he looked healthy as hell at Jazzercise last week.

Awww, Hot Fun In the Summertime was my favorite. RIP Sly.

Dolly Parton on the line, please share your favorite memories of working with Sly on that terrific movie Rhinestone.

Yes I thought this was Stallone

So he was still smoking crack at 76!

"In 2019, Sly Stone’s doctors presented him with a stark ultimatum. An addiction to crack that stretched back decades had ravaged his body, potentially to the point of no return. “They told me that if I kept smoking, I would ruin my lungs or I might die,” he says today.

In fairness, this couldn’t have come as news. It was, he says, the fourth time in recent years he had been taken to hospital in an ambulance, suffering from breathing difficulties: the most recent had occurred a mere two weeks prior to his meeting with the doctors. On each previous occasion, a doctor had presented him with the same ultimatum, which Stone had declined to believe, discharging himself from the hospital against their orders, going home and calling one of his many dealers, even if it took him an hour to struggle from his room to the hospital car park."

Jesus Christ - and I fret over drinking a bottle of wine and what it will do to my long-term health. Not saying he was in great health the last few years - but choosing to stop smoking crack at 76 after 55+ years of various addictions is mind boggling.

Sly and the Family Stone... curiously the band has never been given the recognition it deserves.

Sly's Greatest Hits album from 1970 came out close to the Woodstock film release

I liked him tin the first Rocky movie

Oh no! I loved him in Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!

We did an arrangement of this in chorus in 1970, junior high. Thanks, Sly.

I saw him at Golden Gate Park when I was a kid. In our house it was his music that played all summer long with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Janis Joplin, The Doors, and The Beatles.

My oldest sister got the 45 of "Thank You" for Christmas in '69. When she wasn't home, I'd sneak into her room and play this on the flip side.

I love the theme song he did for Burglar. I miss the days when studios put real effort into original soundtracks for their movies.

Gotta love the coincidence, R25.

[quote]So he was still smoking crack at 76!

Holy shit! He sure did have good genetics. Didn't Amy Winehouse get emphysema from just a few years of crack use?

RIP, Sly. So many songs that are just great vibes.

the documentary R4 references is phenomenal

can't recommend it enough / the early footage / interviews are all first rate

Loved him!

So talented

R.I.P. If You Want Me to Stay (The Midnight Special)

For the bio-pick that you just know is coming, I predict Miles Caton, who put in a strong debut in "Sinners", will be cast as Stone.

That said, I'm a sentimental fool with a taste for the melancholy and poignancy in my pop music.

I never thought I'd use these two songs in the same sentence, but I just now suddenly realized "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as sung by Judy Garland and "Hot Fun in the Summertime" both are tied in my heart for favorite sad songs.

They both capture the relentlessness of passing time....

Was he in posession of a BBC?

A Comet in Music. He shined so bright and unexpectedly but did not last long enough.

His early live performances were a chaotic THRILL. Tight band, fantastic dancing, outrageous clothes, we knew every word of every song. Legend.

[quote] Was he in posession of a BBC?

Did he ever perform on the BBC? Top of the Pops perhaps?

Thank You, Sly Stone:

Questlove Remembers Sly Stone:

One of the resident morning show twat waffles on CP24 (those in Toronto will know) referred to him as Sly Stallone this morning.

Susan Dey was not a fan and will not be issuing a statement of condolence.

“One child grows up to be, someone who just loves to learn…

And one child grows up to be, someone you’d just love to burn…”

I so relate to those lyrics, as I was both.

RIP, Sly. You were the true definition of “cool as fuck”. ❤️

In Slash's autobiography he recounts living in the same complex as Sly and him coming over to hide from his wife and freebasing in a small closet for hours until Slash would forget he was even there

His daughter hosts 10am-noon weekdays on KCRW in LA. Great show. Poor Novena.

Was he trying to have a name similar to Sylvester Stallone, or vice versa?

Sly Stone predates Sylvester Stallone by 3 years and was recording music long before the world had ever heard of Stallone.

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths-Roseanne Barr and Talia Shire

I thought that say Sly Stallone.

Roseanne would be better off dead. She’s ruined enough lives. Probably a drug overdose along with obesity.

The iconic bassline in “Thank You Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Again” was used in Janet’s “Rhythm Nation.”

R47, is Talia Shire sick?

One of the most creative American musicians ever. RIP. Shocked that he lasted this long

R2, sometimes you’re right, and sometimes you're wrong. . .

He outlived 3 of the 4 Pointer Sisters, who recorded the most beautiful version of Sly's song "Everybody Is A Star."

RIP, Sly Stone.

I love you for who you are, not the one you feel you need to be

according to Wikipedia Rose and Freddy Stone are still alive? involved with southern California ministry I believe.

and I'm correct that they were not interviewed in the SLY LIVES doc?

Sly and Brian jones can groove together

I saw him once. It was at the concert hall where I worked. He was so fucked up and so late to the show by the time he arrived it was time for me to leave.

There's a good chapter, funny and sad, about Sly Stone in the new memoir by Peter Wolf. In an interview on his book tour in the spring, Wolf said: "Well, I was such a huge fan, and Sly was at the height of his career and he was so influential. I mean, along with James Brown, those two gentlemen created what we know as funk. James obviously came first and affected Sly , but Sly developed another kind of funk that ... everybody tried to emulate ."

RIP

RIP.