Sly Stone is about to launch a brand new memoir later this yr, that includes contributions from Questlove.
The upcoming ebook is about to be launched on October 17 and can present a never-before-seen perception into the funk icon’s private life. It would additionally characteristic a foreword by legendary American musician, Questlove.
Entitled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir, the ebook will dive right into a firsthand account of the musician’s private life, and share anecdotes from his 50-year-long tenure within the music trade.
“For so long as I can bear in mind of us have been asking me to inform my story, I wasn’t prepared,” he stated. “I needed to be in a brand new way of thinking to grow to be Sylvester Stewart once more to inform the true story of Sly Stone. It’s been a wild journey and hopefully, my followers take pleasure in it too.”
Set to be revealed by White Rabbit Books, the memoir was written with the assistance of Ben Greenman – who has written memoirs with the likes of Parliament-Funkadelic‘s George Clinton, Brian Wilson of The Seashore Boys and extra.
In addition to sharing the narrative behind a few of his most well-known tracks, together with ‘On a regular basis Folks’ and ‘If You Need Me To Keep’, the discharge can even shine a highlight on the the reason why the musician dropped out of the general public eye. These embody his gradual reliance on laborious medicine, and his battle to re-establish himself within the Eighties.
“I fell in love with Sly Stone as a youngster and have been obsessed along with his music and the mysterious story of his life ever since,” stated White Rabbit writer Lee Brackstone. “It merely doesn’t get any greater or extra thrilling than this: a bona fide genius, a funk visionary who re-set the dial within the late ’60s and in so doing anticipated the hip hop revolution to return. This ebook delivers after which goes once more.”
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) will are available hardback, export commerce paperback, e-book and audio codecs – priced at £25.00.
This isn’t the primary time that Questlove has contributed to a venture about Sly Stone. Again in 2021, the musician confirmed that he could be directing a documentary in regards to the Sly And The Household Stone founder entitled Summer time Of Soul.
Moreover, in 2015 Sly Stone was awarded £3.3million in unpaid royalties. Right here, it was found that his former supervisor and lawyer had diverted cash away from him for over a decade between the interval of 1989 and 2000.
