Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) - Trailer (English) HD - video Dailymotion

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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.   Mehr dazu: https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/sly-lives-aka-the-burden-of-black-genius

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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?

Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) - Trailer (English) HD

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