Sly Lives! - The Rise and Fall of Genius Funkateer Sly Stone

Sylvester Stewart (1943-2025), universally known as Sly Stone, was a pioneering American musician, songwriter, and producer who served as the frontman for the revolutionary band "Sly and the Family Stone". The band was explicitly groundbreaking as one of the first major racially integrated, multi-gender lineups in American pop history.
Melodically vital and bracingly frank, Questlove’s uptempo Sundance documentary “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” is a sonic kick to the soul. It posits Sly Stone as a martyr to his own brilliance, a glammed-up, big afro titan from the future whose inevitable brokenness can be traced back to the weight of carrying a race and a movement.
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