Here are some films to be on the lookout for early next year about two funky, funky people...
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury bio-pic starring Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris and Ray Winstone due in early 2010 in the UK. Official film website here.
Coming Back For More - Sly Stone documentary first due to be broadcast on Dutch television in early 2010. Film website here.
Higher: The Story of Sly Stone - yet another Sly doc! Also due sometime in 2010...
Sly Stone's Higher Power Sly Stone vanished into rumor in the 1980s, remembered only by the great songs ("I Want to Take You Higher," "Dance to the Music") he left behind. What's become of the funky leader of the Family Stone since he forsook his Woodstock-era utopianism for darkness, drugs, and isolation? After a few sightings—most notoriously at the 2006 Grammys—the author tracked the last of the rock recluses to a Bay Area biker shop, to scope out where Stone's been, where he's headed, and what's behind those shades. by David Kamp August 2007
From the Village Voice, read about just how great the recent boxset reissue of the first 7 Sly Stone albums is. As overused a word as essential is, this is truly essential.
"A timely box set of seven remastered albums ranging from Sly and the Family Stone's 1967 debut A Whole New Thing to the '74 last gasp Small Talk, this anthology, with the usual accompaniment of fawning liners, rare pics, and B sides, provides detailed blueprints on how to construct a dirty-funk bomb."