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What to stream: Bridget Jones returns, 'Yellowjackets' reappears and Alessia Cara sings about love

Renée Zellweger returning to one of her most indelible roles in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” and Questlove offering the definitive documentary on funk crossover star Sly Stone are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The Independent UK

New on Hulu February 8-14: our expert's picks for 7 TV shows and movies coming to Hulu this week

Picks for the best new TV shows and movies on Hulu this week are perfect Valentine's Day picks and some fun alternative V-Day viewing options.

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“Stevie Ray Vaughan was a little worse for wear. He was eating KFC out of a box and then ate the box as well”: Jeff Beck’s wild tales of Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and Frank Zappa

Sharing the stage with Page, giving Hendrix a guitar, being mistaken for Jagger – these were some of Jeff Beck‘s most memorable friendships

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Watch the trailer for Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the long-awaited documentary about troubled psychedelic pioneer Sly Stone

The film tells the story of Sly & The Family Stone's rise and fall, and examines the difficulties facing successful Black artists in America

Louder

Elon Musk, the Titan disaster and Sly Stone: the most anticipated documentaries of 2025

The next 12 months promises a host of provocative and revealing new documentary movies

The Guardian - US

“We’d do these crazy shows with 16-inch glitter boots tacked to the piano and Neil screaming into the mic. It was like pre-punk. Audiences hated it”: Nils Lofgren’s wild stories of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and more

From The Boss to Chuck Berry, Nils Lofgren has played with them all and lived to tell the tale

Louder

From pillowy pop to foot-stomping beats: The Supremes’ 20 best songs – ranked!

Sixty years on from their first US No 1, Where Did Our Love Go, we rate the Motown group’s greatest singles – sung with and without Diana Ross

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‘Rapper’s Delight planted a seed for the rest of my life’: Questlove on hoarding, capturing hip-hop history and the Kendrick-Drake beef

The drummer, DJ and Oscar-winning director is a key custodian of Black culture, with 200,000 records to prove it. So why does he think he’s getting too old for rap music?

The Guardian - UK

“I came up with slap bass out of necessity. I was basically trying to play drums on the bass”: Larry Graham recounts the birth of “thumpin’ and pluckin’”

Few bassists can stake a claim to inventing slap bass more than Sly and the Family Stone’s Larry Graham

Guitar World

“I was scared to death. Miles didn’t say a word to me. Afterwards, I asked what he thought of my playing. He said, simply, ‘It was cool’”: T.M. Stevens on playing with Miles Davis and James Brown – and what went wrong on Vai’s Sex & Religion project

Vai hired the “flashy bassist with the long hair” after spotting him in a Joe Cocker video

Guitar World

Easy to choose? Lionel Richie’s greatest songs – ranked!

Forty years after Hello was released as a single, we rate the best of Richie’s work – solo and with Commodores, from Sly Stone-influenced funk to epic pop ballads

The Guardian - UK

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) by Sly Stone review – funk, fame and addiction

The genre-bending musician has an astonishing story to tell – but wrestling it into a conventional narrative doesn’t quite work

The Guardian - UK

Book Review: Sly Stone wants to take you higher in memoir with tales of funk, drugs and survival

While recalling his remarkable yet erratic life in music, Sly Stone admits he occasionally had to depend on the recollections of others because his own memory wasn’t always reliable

The Independent UK

Summer of Soul to Little Richard: I Am Everything – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Forget Woodstock! Questlove’s gobsmacking documentary shows the true greatest festival of 1969. Plus, an eye-opening film about a rock’n’roll legend

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War in Israel and Gaza: inside the 13 October Guardian Weekly

Israel rocked by Hamas attack. Plus Sly Stone looks back

The Guardian - UK

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly Stone review – euphoric expression and drug-crazed chaos

A memoir by the groundbreaking funk-rock-soul survivor contains all the playfulness and charm of his music but little in the way of insight

The Guardian - UK

‘I never lived a life I didn’t want to live’: Sly Stone on addiction, ageing and changing music for ever

The immeasurably influential, infamously erratic soul star has written an unlikely autobiography. In a rare interview, Stone opens up on drugs, feuds and his treasure trove of unreleased tracks

Boston Herald

Vinyl Me, Please brings subscription model to record collecting

Sly Stone made a lot of essential releases. But what was his one “Essential” – capital “e” – record?

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Guitar World

When Bootsy Collins met Larry Graham: “He handed me his bass, and I said, ‘Don't even try it. You play the bass, and I'll just watch’”

Why did funk legend Bootsy Collins refuse to jam with the godfather of slap bass?

The Independent UK

Sly Stone book to be released through new Questlove imprint

Questlove has own book imprint and is launching it with a memoir by one of the world’s most influential and enigmatic musicians, Sly Stone, leader of Sly and the Family Stone

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been a wild ride’: funk legend Sly Stone announces memoir

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) will ‘cover all aspects’ of the musician’s life, including his battles with drug use, and is set for release this September

The Guardian - UK

Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!

As Stone turns 80 this week, we appraise the best of his songs, from wildly exuberant funk-pop hits to claustrophobic tracks made amid huge personal and social turmoil

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