Welcome to MusicDayz

The world's largest online archive of date-sorted music facts, bringing day-by-day facts instantly to your fingertips.
Find out what happened on your or your friends' Birthday, Wedding Day, Anniversary or just discover fun facts in musical areas that particularly interest you.
Please take a look around.

Fact #76487

When:

Short story:

Sly and the Family Stone release a new single, Family Affair, on Epic Records in the USA.

Full article:

Bobby Womack : I thought I was crazy; then I met Sly. He'd be laying on the piano whacked out of his brain when it was time to do a vocal, and they'd have to lay the microphone next to his head. That's why it came out, (sings) "Waaan chiiiile grows up to beee!" I had to laugh when I read about this new singing style of Sly's that was so raw. Man, he was just fucked up!
(Source : interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, July 1998)