Sly Stone was one of the most unique people in any form of entertainment. Brilliant, unpredictable, but overall an absolute genius. Stone died at 82.

There are a host of images of Sly Stone in which his onstage style serves as a celebration of the freedom and power that were the by-products of being a rock star, but also the jet fuel. He could be a ...

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Stone’s drug use and other problems forced Sly and the Family Stone to split up for good in 1983. Getty Images “I like my small camper,” the funk legend said 14 years before his death.