02512cam a2200385 i 4500 936665782 TxAuBib 20231024120000.0 230406s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023015269 9780374606978 HRD 30.00 0374606978 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Stone, Sly, author. Thank you (falettinme be mice elf agin) [BOOK] : a memoir / Sly Stone, with Ben Greenman ; created in collaboration with Arlene Hirschkowitz ; foreword by Ahmir Khalib Thompson. Thank you (for letting me be myself again.) First edition. New York : AUWA Books / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. xii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s (“Everyday People,” “Family Affair”), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone’s influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a mystery. After a rapid rise to superstardom, Sly spent decades in the grips of addiction. Now he is ready to relate the ups and downs and ins and outs of his amazing life in his memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). The book moves from Sly’s early career as a radio DJ and record producer through the dizzying heights of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1960s and into the darker, denser life (and music) of 1970s and 1980s Los Angeles. Set on stages and in mansions, in the company of family and of other celebrities, it’s a story about flawed humanity and flawless artistry. -Provided by publisher. 20231024. Stone, Sly. Sly & the Family Stone (Musical group.) Singers United States Biography. Funk musicians United States Biography. Rock musicians United States Biography. Autobiographies. Greenman, Ben, author. Questlove, writer of foreword. Hirschkowitz, Arlene.