Jacksonville Public Library

Thank you (falettinme be mice elf agin), a memoir, Sly Stone, with Ben Greenman ; created in collaboration with Arlene Hirschkowitz ; foreword by Questlove

eng

Includes discography (pages 269-276) and index

autobiography

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non fiction

Thank you (falettinme be mice elf agin)

discographies

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Sly Stone, with Ben Greenman ; created in collaboration with Arlene Hirschkowitz ; foreword by Questlove

a memoir

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses of the last century, decides to finally tell his life story, it can't be called anything else. As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s, and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone's influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a mystery. After a rapid rise to superstardom, Sly spent decades in the grips of addiction. Now he is ready to relate the ups and downs and ins and outs of his amazing life. The book moves from Sly's early career as a radio DJ and record producer through the dizzying heights of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1960s and into the darker, denser life (and music) of 1970s and 1980s Los Angeles. Set on stages and in mansions, in the company of family and of other celebrities, it's a story about flawed humanity and flawless artistry

adult

Thank you (for letting me be myself again)