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from Cooke's childhood as a choirboy to an adulthood when he was anything but

Gang of Four’s Entertainment

Warner includes a backtracking of the history of the band up to that point and also some description of Can's unique recording approach taking into account their home studio set up

Along the way

succumbing to cancer himself

Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History patti smith from Cooke's childhood as aAuthor: Joel Selvin Their music changed pop history, but weve never known much about the people who made ituntil now. a first hand account of both the kaleidoscopic talent that drove Stone to the top and attracted so many people to him, and the madness that he soon descended into and never truly returned from, a victim of ego, drug abuse sycophants and the era. It amounts to a definitive history of one of the rock generations greatest and most tragic