"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the Beach Boys.

In Memoriam June 2025: Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Mick Ralphs, more originally appeared on Goldmine. June 2025’s music losses include Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Mott the Hoople/Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs, ...

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own ...

Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief. Both were musical geniuses who paid a high price ...

June 2025 will be remembered for what it took away: two of American music's most visionary architects, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Wallace Stevens once wrote, "The pure products of America go crazy." ...

Brian Wilson performs at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on Sept. 30, 2004. (Craig Lassig/The New York Times) Prince, Public Enemy and OutKast counted Sly Stone as a major influence.

LCD Soundsystem have paid tribute to Brian Wilson and Sly Stone at the opening night of their eight-date residency at London’s Brixton Academy. The New York group danced on to the stage to the Beach ...

Joan Jett pays tribute to Sly Stone, Brian Wilson at Las Vegas residency opener: Review. ... Fun" filled the venue, an obvious nod to cofounder Brian Wilson, who died two days after Stone on June 11.

Did Sly Stone and Brian Wilson live lives of tragedy or triumph? It's hard to say now. One suspects it will become easier with the passage of time, when only the work remains.