Sly Stone

Feb 22, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sly Stone |David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor

Roots drummer Questlove (Music Is History) lays down a kaleidoscopic chronicle of hip-hop’s 50-year history of “diversity and vision... flummery and flaws,” beginning with the 1973 Bronx party during which DJ Kool Herc began isolating and repeating songs’ beats on turntables.

Dec 24, 2023 | journaltimes.com | Julia Fox |Sly Stone |Werner Herzog

BOOKSMadonna: A Rebel Life By Mary Gabriel, $38Gabriel's weighty volume captures Madonna's astonishing rise from working-class roots through New York's blazing 1980s nightclub scene and on to a level of superstardom that allows the author to bear down on why, exactly, the performer matters so much. It's not authorized — it's authoritative. It's also north of 800 pages, but it's a big life.

Dec 21, 2023 | hickoryrecord.com | Julia Fox |Walter Isaacson |Sly Stone

BOOKSMadonna: A Rebel Life By Mary Gabriel, $38Gabriel's w eighty volume captures Madonna's astonishing rise from working-class roots through New York's blazing 1980s nightclub scene and on to a level of superstardom that allows the author to bear down on why, exactly, the performer matters so much. It's not authorized — it's authoritative. It's also north of 800 pages, but it's a big life.

Dec 21, 2023 | chippewa.com | Julia Fox |Walter Isaacson |Sly Stone

BOOKSMadonna: A Rebel Life By Mary Gabriel, $38Gabriel's weighty volume captures Madonna's astonishing rise from working-class roots through New York's blazing 1980s nightclub scene and on to a level of superstardom that allows the author to bear down on why, exactly, the performer matters so much. It's not authorized — it's authoritative. It's also north of 800 pages, but it's a big life.

Nov 26, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Sly Stone |Ben Greenman

Dion Graham doesn't just embody the spirit of musician Sly Stone's voice--his performance also accentuates the lyrical rhythm of Stone's prose. Sly and the Family Stone's early albums in the 1960s are landmarks of popular music, a feat Stone worked meticulously to craft. His stories place listeners firmly in the spaces he occupied then and give perspective on why he disappeared for so long. Throughout, Graham sustains an authentic cool.