Funk icon Sly Stone, leader of groundbreaking 1960s band, dies at 82

Funk icon and pioneering multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone remolded musical norms and challenged segregation along racial and gender lines, died at the age of 82 on Monday, his family said, leaving behind a legendary, genre-mashing discography which lifted Afrocentric music and hippie culture.