prompts Sly to streamline and simplify his songwriting for pop-radio consumption, resulting in “Dance to the Music” and a subsequent barrage of hits. The 1969 release of the platinum ...

The group’s 1970 Greatest Hits album (released at a time when such ... This was, as we’ll learn in Sly Lives!, all by design—though not in any inauthentic, plastic way.

Music historian and documentarian Questlove outlines subversive messages in Sly Stone and Michael Jackson hits you probably missed.