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Sly and the Family Stone
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Everyday People Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Calling Card
Most everyone who was around at the time gets really excited trying to describe the importance of Sly and the Family Stone in the 1960s: "Sly and the Family Stone took the Sixties ideal of a genera...
Music
"They had the clarity of Motown but the volume of Jimi Hendrix or The Who," George Clinton said of the strange new sounds he heard emitting from Sly and the Family Stone when he first saw them in t...
