Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, and from the search for transcendence to the broken idealism in which the 1960s ended.

Sly Stone, a Grammy winner whose pioneering funk-rock group Sly and the Family Stone produced groundbreaking albums and singles died June 9. He was 82.

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82.