A trailer for the highly-anticipated film about pioneering Sly & The Household Stone founder Sly Stone has been launched. Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) was directed by Roots drummer and Tonight Present bandleader Questlove, and can start streaming by way of Hulu on February 13.
In line with a press launch issued by Hulu, the movie will study “the life and legacy of Sly & The Household Stone, the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone. The movie captures the band’s rise, reign and subsequent fadeout whereas shedding mild on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.”
“It [the film] goes past saying that Sly’s inventive legacy is in my DNA,” mentioned Questlove in 2021. “It’s a black musician’s blueprint. To be given the honour to discover his historical past and legacy is past a dream for me.”
Sly Stone emerged with 1967‘s Dance To The Music, demolishing socio-cultural boundaries by mixing funk with psychedelia and rock. Triumph at 1969’s Woodstock pageant put him on the street to changing into one of many first main rock stars of the early Seventies, however battles with psychological well being and habit would gradual his trajectory.
A number of makes an attempt to revive Stone’s musical profession faltered and failed. His most up-to-date launch, the 2011 solo album I am Again! Household & Associates, was his first since 1975, and contained simply three new songs. The final interview he gave was in 2007, though he stunned many by publishing a memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), in 2023.
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) options interviews with Andre 3000, D’Angelo, Chaka Khan, Q-Tip, Nile Rogers, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, George Clinton, Ruth Copeland and Clive Davis, in addition to band and members of the family.