Remembering Brian Wilson & Sly Stone
RIP: We would be remiss not to mention the passing of two music icons this past week: Brian Wilson and Sly Stone.
Very few musicians have even been called a genius and deserved it. Brian Wilson was a massively important influence in a wide range of genres, from punk, indie rock, and emo to art pop, psychedelia, & chamber pop. Burt Bacharach heralded him as “one of the greatest innovators” in music history and Art Garfunkel called him “the Mozart of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” His influence over so much of the music featured here every week cannot be overstated.
Sly Stone and his band Sly And The Family Stone’s pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel can be summed up by the following quotes. AllMusic stated that “James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it.” And music critic Joel Selvin said, “There are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone.”
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