The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.

including Terry Melcher … and several others who liked my music enough to want to record and market me and my material,” Manson wrote in his 1994 book Manson In His Own Words. Wilson said in a 1971 ...

Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially ...

Questlove rounded up an A-list group of Black musical talent to share their praises of the "Black genius" Sly Stone in the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). The new film ...

PARK CITY, Utah -- Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson directed the Onyx Collective documentary which tells the story of the groundbreaking band Sly & The Family Stone's rise to fame, their unfortunate ...

A trailer for the highly-anticipated movie about pioneering Sly & The Family Stone founder Sly Stone has ... Nile Rogers, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, George Clinton, Ruth Copeland and Clive Davis ...

Terry Lewis and Living Colour's Vernon Reid attesting to the Family Stone's massive popularity at the time over footage of the group rocking the stage. "Sly created this unique space," says Q-Tip ...

Terry Lewis, George Clinton, Ruth Copeland and Clive Davis. Other guest include his bandmates in Sly and the Family Stone - Jerry Martini, Greg Errico, Larry Graham and the late Cynthia Robinson ...