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"Dance to the Music" is a 1967 hit single by soul/funk/rock band Sly and the Family Stone for the Epic/CBS Records label. It was the first single by the band to reach the Billboard Pop Singles Top 10, peaking at #8 and the first to popularize the band's sound, which would be emulated throughout the black music industry and dubbed "psychedelic soul". [2]
Dance to the Music is the second studio album by funk/soul band Sly and the Family Stone, released in 1968 on Epic/CBS Records. It contains the Top Ten hit single of the same name, which was influential in the formation and popularization of the musical subgenre of psychedelic soul and helped lay the groundwork for the development of funk music.
Alkema is accompanied by the Dutch twin biographers Arno and Edwin Konings. Sly Stone's sister: Vaetta Stewart gives a series of performances in Europe where Sly performs a number of songs. This is where the documentary Dance to the Music ends. In Coming Back for More the story continues. Alkema speaks to Sly in hotel rooms.
Music critic Joel Selvin wrote, "there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone". [8] In 2010, they were ranked 43rd in Rolling Stone ' s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time , [ 9 ] and three of their albums are included on the most recent version of Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .
Sly and the Family Stone’s first album, “A Whole New Thing,” was too ahead of its time to catch on (it was a commercial dud), and Sly was told that to save the band he needed to create a hit ...
‘Sly Lives!,’ the original documentary about legendary musician Sly Stone directed by Roots founder and Oscar-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, will premiere Thursday, Feb. 13 ...
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications; US [1]US R&B HH [2]AUS [3]CAN JPN [4]UK [5]A Whole New Thing: Released: October 1967; Label: Epic 195 — Dance to the Music
Sylvester Stewart (born March 15, 1943), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s.