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‘Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden Of Black Genius)’ Review: Questlove’s Passionate Doc Pays Long Overdue Homage To The Black Elvis – Sundance Film Festival
‘Sly Lives! AKA the Burden of Black Genius’ Review: Questlove’s passionate doc pays long overdue homage to the Black Elvis – Sundance Film Festival
Though his heavy drug intake rivals that of the Stones’ Keith Richards—the soon-to-be 81-year-old only packed up his in-house pharmacy some six years ago—Stone refused to join the 27 club with his peers, like Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones or Janis Joplin. Stone wrote about this at length in his frank, funny and, for someone who did so much crack and PCP in his lifetime, surprisingly detailed 2023 memoir Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) — indeed, the book is always there if it feels at time that Questlove is racing through the timeline. Nevertheless, the archive material is stunning, not just in the live footage from the good old days when Stone actually showed up to play but also in the news clips that act as a stark reminder of the dark side of the ’60s, with the assassinations of two Kennedys and Dr. Martin Luther King taking place against the nightmarish backdrop of the Vietnam war.
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