Washington, June 9, 2025 (AFP) - Funk-rock pioneer Sly Stone dead at 82

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2025-06-09

Funk master and innovator Sly Stone, whose music drove a civil rights-inflected soul explosion in the 1960s, sparking influential albums but also a slide into drug addiction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 82. The multi-instrumentalist frontman for Sly and the Family Stone -- rock's first racially integrated, mixed-gender lineup -- "passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend and his extended family," af......

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