Sly Stone Is Writing A Memoir

Sly Stone is a mythic figure whose career, from a distance, looks like some kind of overworked allegory about lofty utopian ideals crashing into cold, hard reality. His whole career arc is so wild that it can be hard to remember that he’s still around. The 80-year-old Stone has been a reclusive figure for decades, and he’s only make brief and temporary returns to the limelight this century — a performance at the Grammys in 2006, another and Coachella in 2010. In 2011, the New York Post reported that Stone was homeless and living in a camper van. But today brings the news that Sly Stone is writing a memoir and that it’s coming out this fall.