sly
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One of the band’s central tunes is “Together,” an allusion to Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
In between the live performance, the academy also showed video tributes for Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Sly Stone.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
"When you buy a reggae record, there's a 90% chance the drummer is Sly Dunbar," producer Brian Eno told the New Music New York festival in 1979.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
Sly, wry, adorable and deplorable, Guillaume Marbeck is priceless as the endlessly irritating and yet frustratingly charismatic Jean-Luc Godard in one of the year’s brightest pictures, a rare standout in a sea of multiplex mediocrity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
That was the last sane and clear thought I had before I saw at least a hundred bright lightbulbs and five boys onstage singing that new Sly and the Family Stone song.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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