Today in Music History for June 21: ...

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Columbia Records started producing the LP; Abba performed for the King of Sweden and his soon-to-be queen; Fleetwood Mac hit ...

As the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone changed the face of popular music in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in Co Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.

Sly Stone — who ranks among the most important American musicians of all time– died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 82.

His parents were pro-music, and he and his three siblings formed the “Stewart Four,” singing gospel songs at church and recording a 78 RPM single in 1956. Stone was a musical prodigy ...

If you watch ‘Popeye,’ you’re watching a movie that — you think of it in the thing that they used to do about record speeds, 33 [RPM], whatever. This is a movie that runs at 78 RPM and 33 ...

“Think of… record speeds," he said, adding, “If 33rpm is the standard speed for playing an LP on a record player, this is a movie that runs at 78 rpm." The film’s orchestrator, Van Dyke Parks, 81, ...