‘Sly Lives’: Questlove and Co-Producer Joseph Patel Unpack the Documentary, Sly Stone’s History and the ‘Burden of Black Genius’
Questlove unpacks how his Sly Stone documentary 'Sly Lives,' like its predecessor 'Summer of Soul,' is both a history and ...
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Musician and filmmaker Questlove talks about what made funk legend Sly Stone special
Musician and filmmaker Questlove follows his Oscar-winning "Summer of Soul" documentary with one on funk legend Sly Stone, in "Sly Lives! AKA The Burden of Black Genius." ...
Questlove Regrets Not Having an 'Intervention Talk' with Black Artists Who Suffered a 'Career-Ruining Moment'
He says his new Sly Stone documentary, 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)', is the closest he could get to “a press ...
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Sly Stone's daughter says she once took a razor blade and snorted sidewalk chalk to imitate her dad's drug use
Sly Stone's struggles with cocaine have been well documented, even, at times, eclipsing his achievements as an artist. But the new documentary Sly Lives! A.k.a. The Burden of Black Genius ...
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Bay Area music legend Sly Stone vanished for decades. A new film explains why.
Out of all of the Bay Area’s musician geniuses, there may be none more mercurial than Sly Stone. Writer of such hits as “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music,” his band Sly & the ...
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Questlove confronts the 'burden of Black genius' in a new Sly Stone documentary
In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage." ...
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Questlove’s ‘Sly Lives!’ Shows How Black Artists Are Both Geniuses and Everyday People
Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially ...