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Sly & the Family Stone

Combining late 1960s psychedelic ideals with a powerful funky sound, Sly & the Family Stone were one of the most exciting bands of the era, influencing later funk, dance and hip-hop movements. Effectively the first front-line multi-cultural, mixed race band of real rock significance, they were driven by Sly Stone, who linked up with his brother Freddie when they decided to combine their two bands, Sly & the Stones and Freddie & the Stone and the Souls. The new group's big rhythm sound soon attracted the interest of CBS Records, which released their debut album A Whole New Thing i...