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Sly Stone Dead at 82
Sly Stone, the groundbreaking and supremely influential leader of the band Sly and the Family Stone, died at age 82, his family announced.
According to his family, Stone suffered from “a prolonged battle with COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and other underlying health issues.” He had largely disappeared from public life by the 1990s, amid a career decline exacerbated by drug use. He and the band were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, and Stone appeared at the Grammy Awards ceremony in 2006 for a tribute to the group, which was his first public performance in nearly two decades. In a testament to his enduring creative spirit, Sly recently completed the screenplay for his life story, a project we are eager to share with the world in due course, which follows a memoir published in 2024.
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