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Questlove’s Brilliant New Documentary Is About So Much More Than Sly Stone

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the Family Stone, effectively ruled over American popular music, but by the middle part of the 1970s,

WBUR · 19h

Questlove-directed documentary 'Sly Lives!' charts the legacy of 'Sly and the Family Stone'

The documentary traces Sly Stone's career, from popular DJ in the San Francisco Bay Area to frontman for a groundbreaking interracial band.

Forbes · 1d

Sly Stone Lives In Brilliant Questlove-Directed Documentary

In a fascinating new documentary on Hulu, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson turns the enduring myth of Sly Stone into a very human story.

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Sly Stone Doc Producer Reveals Health Reason Why the Music Legend Didn't Participate in Film: 'Doesn’t Feel Right'

Joseph Patel and 'SLY LIVES!' director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Sly Stone wasn’t ...

‘SLY LIVES!’ asks: What is the burden of Black genius?

Questlove’s follow-up to "Summer of Soul" is a darker film that explores the question through the famous frontman of Sly & ...

‘Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)’ Review: Struggling to Transmit

Questlove’s new documentary aims to dissect the forward-looking brilliance of Sly Stone and his band, but mostly it traces their downward arc.

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Questlove’s ‘Sly Lives!’ Shows How Black Artists Are Both Geniuses and Everyday People

But Questlove unexpectedly leans heavier on his title’s parenthetical addendum in order to illuminate some deeper truths about the challenges of stardom (especially for Black artists) that may have ...

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