![]() ![]() 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 “…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. ![]() 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” ![]() “.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. Their music changed pop history, but we’ve never known much about the people who made it…until now. ![]()
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