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Sly developed funk into the sound we know best today and the Family Stone were unofficially the first, real funk band–paving the way for Parliament, the Commodores, the 70s incarnation of the Isley Brothers and Earth, Wind & Fire.
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Music legend Sly Stone was once flying high among the stars as the front man of the iconic ’60s and ’70s funk band Sly &
