Two of the greatest rock bands of all time are the subjects of new documentaries which take very different approaches into ...

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will ...

Questlove's second documentary levels up from "Summer of Soul," exploring Sly Stone's life and legacy in a kaleidoscopic and profound way.

I didn’t think it was right to have it out there in the world like that, where it could appear suddenly and do him harm” ...

The band’s songs served as anthems ... Summer of Soul about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival (aka “Black Woodstock”), which featured Sly and the Family Stone. Next up for Questlove, the ...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson says that telling Sly Stone's story with empathy was a way to open a conversation about Black ...

The musician and documentary filmmaker Questlove says that music Sly Stone created in the 1960s and 1970s laid the ... No. 1 songs that he didn’t intend on catching on. On the 1969 song ‘Stand!’ with ...

He stopped studying music in college and ... we were invited to behold a more purely arresting portrait of Sly and the Family Stone, from 1969, by this same director, a snapshot, really, in ...

Sly & The Family Stone featured in Questlove’s previous film, Summer of Soul, which documented the (at the time) criminally ignored Harlem Cultural Festival, which took place in 1969.

The video showcases the band’s meteoric rise and the cultural impact of its enigmatic frontman Sly Stone. The film premiered ... Soul (which highlighted the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival ...

“Sly Lives ... lyrical-flashback-to-1969-in-Harlem concert film, in its way, was beautiful. In “Sly Lives!,” Questlove confronts the life and legacy of Sly Stone, investigates it, holds ...