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Larry Graham Jr. is an American bassist and baritone singer,with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station. In 1980,he released the single "One in a Million You",which reached the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100. He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique on the electric bass guitar,which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass,although he himself refers to the technique as "thumpin' and pluckin'".
Sylvester Stewart,better known by his stage name Sly Stone,is an American musician,songwriter,and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone,playing a critical role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul,rock,psychedelia and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that "James Brown may have invented funk,but Sly Stone perfected it," and credited him with "creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds." Crawdaddy! has credited him as the founder of the "progressive soul" movement.
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is a 2002 action and stealth video game for the PlayStation 2,developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the first entry in the Sly Cooper series. The game follows the titular Sly Cooper and his gang,Bentley the Turtle and Murray the Hippo,on their mission to recover the lost pages of the "Thievius Raccoonus" from a rival gang known as the Fiendish Five.
"Everyday People" is a 1968 song composed by Sly Stone and first recorded by his band,Sly and the Family Stone. It was the first single by the band to go to number one on the Soul singles chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It held that position on the Hot 100 for four weeks,from February 9 to March 8,1969,and is remembered as one of the most popular songs of the 1960s. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song of 1969.
Edward O'Sullivan Lee OD,better known as Bunny "Striker" Lee,was a Jamaican record producer. He was known as a pioneer of the United Kingdom reggae market,licensing his productions to Trojan Records in the early 1970s,and later working with Lee "Scratch" Perry and King Tubby.
Sly 2:Band of Thieves is an action stealth video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released in 2004 for PlayStation 2. It is the sequel to the game Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and part of the Sly Cooper video game series.
Sly and Robbie were a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo,associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres. Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare teamed up in the mid-1970s after establishing themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians. Shakespeare died in December 2021 following kidney surgery.
Cynthia Robinson was an American musician,best known for being a founding member of Sly and the Family Stone,for which she was the trumpeter and a vocalist. Her voice and presence were featured in the hits "Dance to the Music" and "I Want to Take You Higher." Questlove of the hip hop band the Roots has called Robinson the original "hypeman."
Pat Rizzo was an American saxophonist and flautist,best known for his work with funk band Sly and the Family Stone.
"Dance to the Music" is a 1967 hit single by soul/funk/rock band Sly and the Family Stone for the Epic/CBS Records label. It was the first single by the band to reach the Billboard Pop Singles Top 10,peaking at #8 and the first to popularize the band's sound,which would be emulated throughout the black music industry and dubbed "psychedelic soul". It was later ranked #223 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Sucker Punch Productions,LLC is an American video game developer based in Bellevue,Washington. It is best known for creating character action games for PlayStation consoles such as Sly Cooper,Infamous,and Ghost of Tsushima. The studio has been a part of PlayStation Studios since 2011. As of 2020,the company employs about 160 people.
Sly 3:Honor Among Thieves is an action stealth video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions for PlayStation 2 in 2005. It is the third game in the Sly Cooper franchise. Sly 3 has optional 3D stages,and comes with a pair of 3D glasses inside the manual. The game received generally positive reviews.
Sly Cooper is a series of stealth and action-adventure and video games for the PlayStation 2,PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The series follows the adventures of Sly Cooper,an anthropomorphic raccoon and master thief,along with his two partners in crime,Bentley the turtle and Murray the hippopotamus,all of whom are pursued by Sly's love interest,Inspector Carmelita Fox. The first three games in the series were developed by Sucker Punch Productions,while Sanzaru Games developed the fourth. The first three games were also remastered into high-definition for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita by Sanzaru Games,in a compilation titled The Sly Collection.
There's a Riot Goin' On is the fifth studio album by the American funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone. It was recorded from 1970 to 1971 at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito,California and released later that year on November 1 by Epic Records. The recording was dominated by band frontman/songwriter Sly Stone during a period of escalated drug use and intra-group tension.
Sylvester "Sly" James,Jr. is an American politician who served as the 54th mayor of Kansas City,Missouri from 2011 to 2019. James has lived in Kansas City's Union Hill neighborhood. As mayor,he was known for wearing bow ties.
Sly Cooper:Thieves in Time is a 2013 action stealth video game,and the fourth installment in the Sly Cooper series. Available on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita,the game was developed by Sanzaru Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Sanzaru had previously ported the original games,developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the PlayStation 2,into remastered versions for the PS3,named The Sly Collection,released in November 2010. Thieves in Time was teased in the bundle,but it was not formally announced until several months later at the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo during Sony's presentation in June 2011.
Rhythm Killers is an album by Jamaican musical duo Sly and Robbie,released in May 1987 by Island Records. By the time of the album's recording,Sly and Robbie had transitioned away from their prolific work in the reggae genre. They spent the 1980s experimenting with electronic sounds and contemporary recording technology on international,cross-genre endeavors,which influenced their direction for Rhythm Killers.
First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate is the fourteenth and final studio album by American funk rock band Funkadelic. The album was released by the C Kunspyruhzy in 2014 and consists of newly recorded material.
Compton is the third studio album by American rapper and producer Dr. Dre. It was released on August 7,2015,on Apple Music and the iTunes Store,with the physical editions released on August 21,2015. It is the follow-up to his second album,2001 (1999),after the cancellation of the premeditated album Detox.
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