Their music changed pop history, but we've never known much about
the people who made it...until now. "...a first-hand account of
both the kaleidoscopic talent that drove Stone to the top and
attracted so many people to him, and the madness that he soon
descended into and never truly returned from, a victim of ego, drug
abuse sycophants and the era.... It amounts to a definitive history
of one of the rock generation's greatest and most tragic artists."
-Jem Aswad, Variety, "The Best Music Books of 2022" "...the musical
trajectory of Sly & The Family Stone, and especially its
namesake and leader, Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart), makes even
the most shocking episode of Behind the Music look like Nickelodeon
programming. Esteemed music journo Joel Selvin chronicles the good,
the bad, the ugly (and the really ugly), in a new reissue of his
1998 book, Sly & The Family Stone: An Oral History." -Bob
Ruggiero, Houston Press Sly Stone shook the foundations of soul and
turned it into a brand new sound that influenced and liberated
musicians as varied as Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Herbie
Hancock. His group-consisting of Blacks and whites, men and
women-symbolized the Woodstock generation and crossed over to
dominate pop charts with anthems like "Everyday People," "Dance to
the Music," and "I Want to Take You Higher." Award-winning
journalist and bestselling author Joel Selvin weaves an epic
American tale from the voices of the people around this funk
phenomenon: Sly's parents, his family members and band members
(sometimes one and the same), and rock figures including Grace
Slick, Sal Valentino, Bobby Womack, Mickey Hart, Clive Davis, Bobby
Freeman, and many more. In their own words, they candidly share the
triumphs and tragedies of one of the most influential musical
groups ever formed-"different strokes" from the immensely talented
folks who were there when it all happened. "Joel Selvin, the
veteran music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, published a
thoroughgoing, book-length oral history of the group in 1998 that
is as disturbing and chilling a version as you'll ever find of the
'dashed '60s dream' narrative: idealism giving way to
disillusionment, soft drugs giving way to hard, ferment to rot."
-David Kamp, "Sly Stone's Higher Power" Vanity Fair, August 2007
Available for the first time in years, Sly & the Family Stone:
An Oral History, is an unflinching look at the rise and fall one of
music's most enigmatic figures.
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