Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone electrified Woodstock audiences and introduced a genre-fusing brand of psychedelic funk with hits such as “Family Affair” and “Everyday People” but then mostly vanished from the music scene for decades in the grip of drug abuse,

Sly & the Family Stone's second Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 started to take a very different tone from its first, but with equally powerful and funky results.