"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the Beach Boys.

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own ...

Brian Wilson performs at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on Sept. 30, 2004. (Craig Lassig/The New York Times) Prince, Public Enemy and OutKast counted Sly Stone as a major influence.

In a cruel coincidence, this week has brought the deaths of two pop world builders at 82: Sly Stone and Brian Wilson.Both were exemplars of 1960s California, with Sly & the Family Stone ...

Both Wilson and Stone were true originals and are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Brian Wilson has been called a musical ...

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys passed away June 11 at age 82, just two days after fellow Californian Sly Stone of Sly and the ...

June 2025 will be remembered for what it took away: two of American music's most visionary architects, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Wallace Stevens once wrote, "The pure products of America go crazy." ...

Joan Jett pays tribute to Sly Stone, Brian Wilson at Las Vegas residency opener: Review. ... Fun" filled the venue, an obvious nod to cofounder Brian Wilson, who died two days after Stone on June 11.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...