Some might be content with Elton John's Greatest Hits, but I wanted the entirety of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and then some way to prioritize the rest of his back catalog. As a budding, 13-year-old music obsessive, every record in the canon triggered a cascading need for several more. I bought all three at once that year, because they were the ones Columbia House offered. His next record, 1978's Stranger in Town, would go platinum within a month. Twelve months later, he had two: Live Bullet, the double LP documenting some blistering hometown sets at Detroit's Cobo Hall, and Night Moves, his first platinum album, whose title single would peak at No. At the start of 1976, Bob Seger had zero albums on that list. But there was already some notion of a rock and roll canon, a list of key albums that FM listeners needed to have in their collection. When I got clean in 2019, that let the process start.There was no such thing as Classic Rock in 1976 - the phrase, and the radio format it inspired, wouldn't come into common usage until the mid-1980s. “But the time wasn’t right and I wasn’t ready. “I always wanted to tell my story, partly because not everybody knew my side of the story on some things,” Stone said. Writing the book, he added, was a satisfying task. Stone remains hopeful of releasing a series of unheard songs he's written over 30 years, as some sources say there are thousands of tracks in his archive. “I’m proud that the music I made inspired people.” “I was always happy if someone took the things I was doing and they liked them enough to want to do them on their own,” he said. Reflecting on the influence he had on other artists, Stone said he was “never annoyed” by seeing them follow his musical lead. READ MORE: When Sly and the Family Stone Went Mainstream A little of it was me, but most of it was the way the shows were organized or disorganized.” “The thing about being late to shows or not coming out started to be a reputation, which wasn’t fair.

“The only thing I know that would have made life easier was to get booked into fewer shows, and get more information about when they were happening and where,” he told The Guardian. Among a number of subjects, he’ll also address the reputation for unreliability he acquired in the ‘70s, after Stone started canceling shows at short notice or simply not showing up. He’ll go into more detail in his memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), to be published on Oct. “But I might have stopped sooner, knowing what I know now.” Sly Stone's Memoir Will Tell All “I didn’t like to be the kind of person who just drew the blinds and didn’t work,” he said. Stone managed to keep creating during the worst period of his addiction. Saddest of all, Stone says he's too weak to continue working, saying his problems “haven’t stopped me from hearing music, but they have stopped me from making it.” Then he added: “I can hear music in my mind.” Once I decided, it just happened.” At 80, his lifestyle has taken its toll: “I have trouble with my lungs, trouble with my voice, trouble with my hearing and trouble with the rest of my body, too.” From the way I was feeling, I took it serious this time. READ MORE: How Sly and the Family Stone Defined an Era With 'Stand'

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