num_pages: 142
description: 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.
language: English
title: There's a Riot Goin' On
titlecomplete: There's a Riot Goin' On
genres: History, Nonfiction, Music
ratings_count: 158
series: 33 1/3
publisher: Continuum