Remember Who You Are: Celebrating Sly Stone's Life & Legacy

June 12, 2025 Terry Nelson

Sly Stone death in memoriam tribute — *Photo: Michael Putland | Getty Images*

Sly Stone was the blueprint that others read and built from, including Prince, Lenny Kravitz and D’Angelo. And as long as his musical children and grandchildren carry on, Sly will always be with us.

Sly and The Family Stone’s ‘There’s a Riot Goin’ On’ Turns 50 | Anniversary Retrospective

November 2, 2021 Patrick Corcoran

The band’s fifth LP is a striking example of a pathfinder taking a road, both musically and personally, that tests every relationship to the brink and beyond.

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Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Jay-Z made damn good albums before ‘The Blueprint,’ as well as some afterwards. But his sixth studio affair remains the album where everything came together.