In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become apparent.
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a question that's even more interesting.
Sly Stone's daughter, Phunne Stone, recalled what it was like growing up with the funk artist in a new documentary titled "Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)." ...
Joseph Patel and 'SLY LIVES!' director Questlove thought it wouldn't be "empathetic" to show Stone on camera Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for his own documentary, and the creators of the film ...
However, Sly Stone's haunting genius ... itself amongst the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s and '70s. The band's radical inclusivity, both in terms of race and gender, was a ...
(aka The Burden of Black Genius), Questlove delves into the genius and torments of Sly Stone — and uses that story as window into many other artists’ lives, including interviewees D’Angelo ...
The lead singer and creative force behind the legendary band Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone deserves the celebratory documentary treatment, and the new Hulu movie “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of ...
Ostensibly it covers the career of Sly Stone, the prodigious musician who, during the late '60s and '70s, generated some of ...
Stone’s legacy is different. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the West Coast polymath synthesized acid rock and funk through his multiracial, mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone ...
Sly Stone wasn’t interviewed for his own documentary, and the creators of the film have revealed why. During a Q&A following a screening of SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the ...