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One of the great innovators in 1960s rock, Sylvester Stewart's early years in music are commonly summed up by adjectives like vital, intense, and magnificent; descriptions of his later career use words like chaos, fiasco, and riot. The extraordinary creativity and tragic self-destructiveness of the man best known as Sly Stone are examined in ON THE RECORD, Joel Selvin's evocative oral history of Stone's rise and fall. Members of his family, his band (sometimes one and the same), and his revolving entourage contribute a kaleidoscopic variety of memories and anecdotes. They recall both the magic and the chaos of the times and the precipitous descent into drug addiction and dysfunction of an artist who once seemed on the verge of creating a vital, hopeful new music. The early Family Stone was a tightly-rehearsed, multiracial unit performing celebratory, optimistic psychedelic R&B songs with titles like "You Can Make It If You Try" and "Stand!" for the Woodstock generation; even in his later debilitated state, Stewart was capable of producing seminal albums like 1971's THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON. Simultaneously heartbreaking and fascinating, reading these revelatory recollections is often like watching a deranged driver steering a finely-tuned limousine into a brick wall.
| Details | | Series: | For the Record |
| Size | | Length: | 195 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
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