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?DON?T CALL ME NIGGER, WHITEY? IBD

LEAKY BOOT PRESS
04 / 2014
9781909849051
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Sinopsis

Inter-racial. Inter-gender. Into drugs. What is it... this thing called Sly & The Family Stone?It?s about time. It?s about space. It?s about the ups and downs of Funk, Psychedelic Soul and R&B. But more than anything else, it?s about music and it?s about people who are obsessed by music.In this first-ever full-length biography of Sylvester ?Sly Stone? Stewart, music-writer Andrew Darlington (?I Was Elvis Presley?s Bastard Love-Child?) exhaustively details the story, while adding intriguing new slants. Relating the hits-'Dance To The Music', 'Stand', 'Family Affair' and the seismic album There?s A Riot Goin? On, to the Civil Rights protests, the Black Power radicals and the insurrectionary counter-culture politics of their turbulent time. This is the true story of a music legend and the events that shaped the music that defines the moment.Andrew Darlington is a renowned music journalist and critic whose work has been widely published in newspapers and magazines. He also writes fiction-particularly science fiction-and poetry. He lives in West Yorkshire, England. He is a dedicated blogger and maintains a blog at http://andrewdarlington.blogspot.co.uk/ where he writes on books, music and anything else that appeals to him.