PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & The Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.
A memoir by the groundbreaking funk-rock-soul survivor contains all the playfulness and charm of his music... Lovers of the man's music will enjoy the book for the voice, the studio and touring details, the pop star anecdotes * The Guardian * High times and crashing lows of Sylvester Stewart... exquisite * MOJO * Sly is a funny and likeable narrator... Ben Greenman has done a helluva job bringing the Sly best of his music - the boldness, the mischief - to the page * Record Collector * Damn entertaining! * Buzz * Honest, no holds barred take on an extraordinary life lived on the edge * Shindig! * Funk legend's memoir excels on music... wonderful * The Irish Times * A cheerful, friendly, genius figure who, through a life of hit records, changing fortunes, legal battles, arrests, addictions and eventual sobriety at 80, has accepted his position with equanimity * The Times *
