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- ↑ Filmfestivals.com - willem alkema, COMING BACK FOR MORE
- ↑ Withoutabox - 2nd Annual ActNow: New Voices in Black Cinema Festival
- ↑ The Guardian , Tuesday 18 August 2009 - Sly Stone living on welfare, claims documentary - Sean Michaels
- ↑ Offbeat Magazine , August 24, 2011 - Why Does Sly Stone’s Appreciation End In 1973? by Ben Berman
- ↑ musicradar, August 18, 2009 - Sly Stone homeless, survives on Social Security By Joe Bosso
- ↑ imdb.com - Dance to the Music (2008 TV Movie)
- ↑ "Sly Stone attends "Love City" A Convention Celebrating Sly & The..." Getty Images (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ San Francisco Bay View - by The People’s Minister of Information JR
- ↑ Millar, Lindsey (2009-10-12). "Sly Stone to Hot Springs ... maybe". Arkansas Times. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ↑ Filmfestivals.com - willem alkema, COMING BACK FOR MORE
- ↑ Withoutabox - 2nd Annual ActNow: New Voices in Black Cinema Festival
