Sly Stone, the artist who changed the history of music and disappeared: “He had everything and threw it away almost on conscience”

After Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the cover of an American magazine from the late 1960s dared to augur that Sly Stone (real name Sylvester Stewart, Denton, Texas, USA, 82) would be the “new leader” generational. With a smaller catalogue and fewer years on the ridge than the previous referents, the assertion may now be exaggerated, but at the time it was a promise with a certain basis of realism.