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Yet four years ago, we were invited to behold a more purely arresting portrait of Sly and the Family Stone, from 1969, by this same director,...
In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts as well as a fount of...
