- Sly Stone Believed Everybody Is a Star: The Massive Legacy of an Avant-Funk Revolutionary Rolling Stone
- How the Bay Area Shaped Sly Stone The New York Times
- ‘People were getting ready to tear up the hall’: Fan recalls Sly Stone’s late arrival to DC show WTOP
- Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone frontman, dies at 82 CBS News
- Sly Stone died after prolonged battle with COPD. The condition can be debilitating. USA Today