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Sly Lives! Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie review the latest streaming doco on Sly and The Family Stone

2025-02-24

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Sly Lives! is a 2025 documentary about the life of Sly Stone and the band Sly and the Family Stone.

The film is also known as The Burden of Black Genius.

It was directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and premiered at Sundance in January 2025. It's the second documentary directed by Questlove, following his Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul.

It was released on Hulu and Disney+ on February 13, 2025 and Michael Mackenzie and Brian Wise discuss the enormous influence this troubled genius has had on funk, soul, psychedelia since his multi-gendered, multi-racial band became superstars in the late 1960s.