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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Christopher Weber

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

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While summoning stories from 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.

At one point in his new memoir, Stone, now 80, remembers that during the hazy excesses of his 1970s rock stardom he briefly shared a Los Angeles mansion with a baboon that had the run of the place. He's just not sure where the primate came from.

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