The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema.

In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas) during the fall of 1970, Sly Stone began recording his follow-up to 1969's "Stand!" the most popular album of his band's career.

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Author: Miles Marshall Lewis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 1142pp
Size: 5 x 6.5
Notes: paperback
Release Date: February 25, 2006
ISBN: 978-0826417442