I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone

BOOK: I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone
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I WANT
TO TAKE YOU
HIGHER
 
WANT
TO TAKE YOU
HIGHER
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE

JEFF KALISS

 
Contents

Foreword
vii

Preface
ix

Introduction
xiii

Note on Style
xix

Get Your Livin' Down (1943-1961)
1

You Have You to Complete (1961-1966)
17

Dance to the Music (1966-1968)
35

Everybody: Stand! (1968-1970)
63

Riot (1970-1972)
83

You Don't Have to Come Down (1972-1974)
107

Ever Catch a Falling Star? (1974-2001)
127

I Love You for Who You Are (2002-)
145

Afterword 775

Selected Discography 783

Sources 795

Acknowledgments
207

Index
205

 
Foreword

OY, THE YEARS GO BY FAST
now. I've been looking at it like,
between this Friday and the next
Friday, it seems like it's getting shorter and shorter. I'm using my
time right, but it's always that pursuit of happiness. There's more
happiness, but the one you're looking for, I think, stays the same
distance away.

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