The star behind the band Sly and the Family Stone had been battling numerous health issues
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The star behind the band Sly and the Family Stone had been battling numerous health issues
The star behind the band Sly and the Family Stone had been battling numerous health issues
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Sly Stone, leader of Sly and the Family Stone, dead aged 82

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82

Sly Stone, funk music pioneer and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82

Sly Stone obituary

Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted, Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82

Sly Stone, frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, dead at 82

Sly Stone – a life in pictures

Sly Stone, of '60s funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82 - UPI.com

Sly Stone: A funky life – in pictures

Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain

The funk music icon died following a "prolonged battle" with COPD and other underlying health issues, his family said.

American songwriter lit up generations of dancefloors with his group Sly and the Family Stone

Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco deejay turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82.

He had a string of irresistible hits but his career was derailed by drug abuse, bankruptcy and a fondness for armaments

Funk and soul musician whose band, Sly and the Family Stone, had a profound effect on US music in the 1960s and 70s

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and ’70s.