There's a Riot Goin' On
2006
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Sly Stone began recording "There's a Riot Goin' On" in late 1970 as a follow-up to the commercially successful "Stand!" In this brisk, inventive book, Miles Marshall Lewis chronicle Sly's descent into a haze of drug addiction and delirium as he rejects the successful formula - "Dance to the Medley, dance to the shmedley" - and creates one of the most powerful and haunting albums to inspire the hiphop movement.
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Miles Marshall Lewis
Author · 2 books
Miles Marshall Lewis is a pop culture critic, essayist, fiction writer and director. His latest book, Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar (St. Martin's Press), comes in May 2021. He is the author of There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Bloomsbury), his book on the making of a classic Sly and the Family Stone album, as well as Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises (Akashic Books), his debut essay collection on coming of age in the Bronx during the 1970s-80s. Over the past 20 years, his celebrity profiles and arts criticism have been published by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Washington Post, NPR, The Nation, Essence, Salon and many others.
