Sly Stone, the legendary bandleader of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82. These five songs show the power of his influence.

Sly Stone lived a life of ups and downs, to the point that it's worth asking where he had any regrets before he passed away. Read more about it here.

Queen Latifah has taken to social media to heap praise on the funk legend, who "passed away peacefully" following a lengthy battle with COPD.

Sylvester Stone, who, along with his band The Family Stone, had a major impact on rock, funk, R&B, and hip-hop music, has passed away. He was 82. His family says that the musician passed away after a health battle that included COPD, a progressive lung disease.

With his diverse band and a jaw-dropping list of musical inspirations, Family Stone frontman changed the face of modern music.

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, and from the search for transcendence to the broken idealism in which the 1960s ended.

Sly Stone, the visionary multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who led Sly and the Family Stone – in doing so helping to pioneer what would come to be known as funk music – has died at the age of 82, his family announced on social media.

Sly Stone, one of the most influential musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died at the age of 82.

Sylvester "Sly" Stone, the frontman of Sly & the Family Stone, whose groundbreaking fusion of rock, soul, jazz and gospel captivated a generation, has died at the age of 82. The musical icon from Texas died Monday after battling lung disease, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to multiple outlets, including PBS.

The music world mourns Sly Stone, funk pioneer and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, who died in Los Angeles at 82.