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Sly Stone – a life in pictures
Born Sylvester Stewart on March 15, 1943, he worked as a record producer and radio DJ on KSOL FM in San Francisco, California, circa 1967 Photograph: MichaelSly and the Family Stone, circa 1968 (from left) Greg Errico, Rose Stone, Sly Stone, Cynthia Robinson, Freddie Stone, Jerry Martini, and Larry Graham Photograph: SBMG Archive/ Sony Music
Exhaling smoke during an interview in 1969 at a radio station in San Diego, California Photograph: MichaelSly and the Family Stone rehearse for a television appearance, October 1969. From left: Rose Stone, Cynthia Robinson, Sly Stone, Jerry Martini, Freddie Stone, Gregg Errico, Larry Graham. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images
Performing at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, as featured in the documentary Summer of Soul (2021) Photograph: Album/Alamy
Posing for a portrait on the Warner Brothers lot in Los Angeles, California circa 1970 Photograph: MichaelSly And The Family Stone, September 1970. From left Larry Graham, Jerry Martini, Gregg Errico, Sly Stone, Freddie Stone and Cynthia Robinson Photograph:Posing for a portrait at home, 1972 Photograph: MichaelPosing for a portrait circa 1974 Photograph: MichaelPhotograph: David Redfern/Redferns via Getty Images
Performing at the 1975 American Music awards Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Disney GeneralBobby Womack and Sly Stone backstage at the Beacon Theater in New York City, June 1984, during a short tour Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Redferns
Inducted into the 1993 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in Los Angeles, as part of the group Sly and the Family Stone Photograph:Making his first major public appearance in almost 13 years during a tribute to Sly & The Family Stone at the 48th annual Grammy awards in Los Angeles, 2006 Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Performing in concert at Olympia Hall in Paris, July 2007. Stone, who has been a recluse since the mid-1980s, has played with his band only once in the last two decades before this European tour Photograph: UPI/Alamy
Performing on stage during the 41st Montreux Jazz festival, Switzerland, July 2007 Photograph: Martial Trezzini/AP
Stone and George Clinton appear at Clinton's 67th birthday party at Zune, July 2008, in Los Angeles, California Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy
Performing at the Coachella festival in 2010 in Indio, California Photograph:Stone attends Love City, a convention celebrating Sly & The Family Stone, 2015 in Oakland, California
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