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The never-thought-we’d-see-it memoir from the legendary Sly Stone.
The wait is over. A memoir from the legendary Sly Stone that tells his life story and shares his insights on the music he made, the people he played alongside, and the years of rocking and rolling that led to his notorious disappearance from the public eye.
Sylvester Stewart, best known by his stage name, Sly Stone, was a musical prodigy from a young age, capably picking up multiple instruments simultaneously and playing his way through the R and B scene of the early sixties. His band, Sly and the Family Stone, pioneered the brass-heavy psychedelic sound that eventually permeated the funk and soul soundscapes of bands like Parliament and Earth, Wind and Fire of later years. The band embodied a spirit of love and unity at a particularly fraught moment in American history, espousing a harmonious social vision. But within the group, members fought, and Sly and his bandmates’ reputation for chaotic, drug-fueled rock-and-roll antics superseded their commercial success and utopian dreams.
Even with their hit “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”—which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970, secured the number one spot on the pop charts, and sold more than a million copies—the band struggled to book gigs. Eventually, Sly stopped performing and vanished. Rumors circulated that he lived in his car, or that he was no longer alive at all. The unaccounted-for years, and all the stories and sets that led Sly Stone to this moment, are collected here in Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), the first-ever memoir from this pop-culture powerhouse.
Sly Stone is the iconic front man of Sly and the Family Stone.
Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad; he was Questlove's collaborator on Mo’ Meta Blues and Something to Food About; and he has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780374606978
- ISBN-10: 0374606978
- Publisher: AUWA
- Publish Date: October 2023
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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