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Sundance: Questlove On ‘Sly Lives!’ Secret Heart, His Park City Return, ‘SNL’ Music Film, New Roots Album & Self-Sabotage
Roots co-founder Questlove is back at Sundance after winning an Oscar for Summer Of Soul, this time the musician is looking at Sly Stone to see today
promotion here in Park City, bandleader on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, running a book imprint, tours and more, Questlove career as a filmmaker is growing in classic Sundance fashion. There’s the just started film about the legendary Earth Wind & Fire, and, as a part of Saturday Night Live ‘s 50th anniversary celebrations, there’s the Oz Rodriguez co-directed Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music hitting NBC on January 27, with a drop on Peacock 24 hours later. DEADLINE: I want to read something to you from a book you might recognize, because you wrote it, ‘Hip Hop Is History’: “Big stars helped forge attitudes and philosophies, but others poured concrete for a foundation.” Maybe it’s me, but that sure sounds like it could be the subtext tagline for Sly Lives!, don’t you think?
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