Sly & the Family Stone

CTL-E-5273 · Person · group · 1966–1975

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Sly and the Family Stone was the American funk and soul band Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) formed in San Francisco in 1966, built around his siblings Freddie and Rose with Cynthia Robinson, Gregg Errico, Jerry Martini and Larry Graham. The band is widely described as one of the first major American groups with a racially integrated, mixed-gender line-up, and its psychedelic soul carried “Dance to the Music,” the number-one singles “Everyday People” and “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” and a defining Woodstock set in 1969. The darker There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971) and Fresh (1973) followed before the original band dissolved in 1975. The group entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Stone, who had largely withdrawn from public life, died in 2025 after a prolonged battle with COPD, his family announced.

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Epic Records — recorded for
Sly and the Family Stone recorded for Epic Records, which released the band’s albums including There’s a Riot Goin’ On on November 1, 1971.

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There's a Riot Goin' On — authored by → this record

Sources

Gold Radio (Bauer Media), “Sly Stone, funk and soul legend and leader of the Family Stone, dies aged 82” (family statement), June 9, 2025 — https://www.goldradio.com/news/music/sly-stone-family-death/
Noise11, “Funk Legend Sly Stone Has Died Aged 82,” June 10, 2025 — https://www.noise11.com/news/funk-legend-sly-stone-has-died-aged-82-20250610
Wikipedia, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” and “Sly and the Family Stone” — cross-checked against the above, October 2026

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