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In an interview with NPR, Clive Davis discusses working with Sly Stone:

“My dealings with Sly were to really encourage him. He was so energetic. He was so hardworking. In those days, the Columbia studios were union scale and union-affiliated and they were not open Saturday and Sunday. Sly wanted to open Saturday and Sunday for work, so he would call me over the weekend. We bonded.”

Read more at NPR.org.

Listen to Sly and the Family Stone – “Everyday People” in Clive Davis’ – The Soundtrack Of My Life playlist on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/1orD9IAKp9MotxkDEhl6Mr

February was a lucky month for Sly Stone, since the number one song in the USA 44 years ago this week was “Everyday People,” while the number one song in the USA 43 years ago was “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” These two Sly & The Family Stone classics were both featured on the 1970 Epic release Greatest Hits, a frozen concentrate of awesome in vinyl form.

Recently, Sony’s senior mastering engineer Vic Anesini and producer Rob Santos were hunkered down at Battery Studios in New York to remaster a career-spanning boxed set of Sly and the Family Stone—including a previously unreleased recording of a 1970 concert at the Isle of Wight off the coast of England.

“For this project, we pulled about 12 cartons of original one-inch, eight-track analog tape masters from Sony’s vaults,” Mr. Anesini said. “Today I’m going to import just the new concert material into our computer at a high digital resolution, then I’m going to use the Pro Tools software program to refine imperfections caused by mike placements at the time.”

Read more at The Wall Street Journal.