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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 (“Everyday People,” “Family Affair”), 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 in his memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). 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.

Written with Ben Greenman, who has also worked on memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is a vivid, gripping, sometimes terrifying, and ultimately affirming tour through Sly’s life and career. Like Sly, it’s honest and playful, sharp and blunt, emotional and analytical, always moving and never standing still.

Read an early review of the book from The Atlantic HERE.

Get the 50th Anniversary edition of Sly & The Family Stone’s Fresh on neon orange vinyl. Fresh finds Sly precisely balancing funk and pop, creating an album that wound up being his last masterwork and one of the great funk albums of its era.
https://recordstoreday.com/UPC/196587410315

In June 1973, Sly & The Family Stone released a single that had the whole world dancing: “If You Want Me To Stay.”

Get ready to be immersed in Sly & The Family Stone’s funk opus There’s a Riot Goin’ On. Featuring tracks like “Family Affair” and “Just Like a Baby,” get it on 180g vinyl.

Available only at VMP with Listening Notes and an art print: https://bit.ly/3MQdTiV