Der Dokumentarfilm Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) erzählt vom kometenhafte Aufstieg, dem bis heute anhaltende Einfluss und dem langsamen Abebben des Erfolgs von Sly & the Family Stone, einer Funk- und Soul-Band aus San Francisco.
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00:00Do you believe in the concept of black genius?
00:09Black genius?
00:10Wow.
00:11Ha ha ha.
00:16Sly and the Family Stone.
00:17It can't be overstated how massively popular they were.
00:22Sly created this unique space.
00:26At that time, the mixed group was a new thing.
00:28Guys and girls and black and white.
00:31So you get all that input.
00:32They sounded like nothing else sounds.
00:39Everybody wanted him to bring people together.
00:41This country was tearing itself apart.
00:43I was scared.
00:44At the time, it was almost too much all at once.
00:48You are at the place that every musician wants to be.
00:52You get there, and you blow it.
00:58The world's watching you, analyzing you.
01:04Sly was kind of the first black artist to go through that so publicly.
01:08The anxiety, the pressure, the drug use.
01:14He was an underdog.
01:15You are exceptionally gifted.
01:17But at the same time, you have to understand
01:20you are exceptionally gifted.
01:21But at the same time, none of that protects you.
01:25If you're Sly Stone, there is no blueprint for what comes next.
01:33Oh my God.
01:34If you've been on this
01:37heightened, explosive life,
01:40your body has taken in so much energy.
01:44You've given out so much energy.
01:48And you stop.
01:50Where's that energy go?