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Family offer help for Sly

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Sep 29, 2011 Updated Sep 30, 2011

Following news that Funk veteran Sly Stone is homeless and living out of a van in LA, former bandmates have offered to help.

Members of The Family Stone – who are due Down Under for a series of gigs in November - were apparently shocked to hear of Sly's plight, with drummer Greg Errico saying "He knows if he ever wants to make music with us again, the door is always open."

Greg added the entire band is clean and sober, and he believes Sly - who's had a well-documented struggle with substance abuse - could benefit from being around positive influences.

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Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music. Headed by singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and containing several of his family members and friends, the band was the first major American rock band to...

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