This week’s ten is in honor of the re-emergence of the reclusive Sly Stone. David Kamp interviews he of the (formerly) luxuriant Afro and riveted leather jumpsuit in this month’s Vanity Fair - Sly Stone’s Higher Power
What was the band named before becoming Sly & The Family Stone?
What Bay Area band’s #15 hit did Sly produce?
Which S&FS single effectively invented 1970s funk?
What was the band’s first Top Ten hit?
What was the band’s first release to hit #1 on both the pop and R&B charts?
What was their last release to do the same?
Where did Sly marry Kathy Silva in 1974?
Who served as MC at the wedding festivities?
Who did Sly once cut as opening act from the bill because the audience better received him?
What did Sly do to cause a riot at a free concert in Chicago?
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