Combining three never-before-heard songs, jingles from when Sly was a DJ on KSOL, and a legendary story, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is an all-encompassing audio experience.
One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer and a legend. He created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock. As a songwriter, he penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and ’70s, from “Everyday People” to “Family Affair.” As a performer, he electrified audiences with a persona and stage presence that set a lasting standard for pop-culture performance.
Yet his life has also been a cautionary tale, known as much for how he dropped out of the spotlight as for what put him there in the first place. People know the music, but the man remains a mystery. In Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), his much-anticipated memoir, he is finally ready to share his story—a story that many thought he’d never have the chance to tell.
Written with Ben Greenman, who has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson, among others, and created in collaboration with Sly Stone’s manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) includes a foreword by Questlove—and an award–winning narration by Dion Graham.
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“Throughout, Graham sustains an authentic cool. His voice subtly slows down, pauses, and cracks as Stone expounds upon his older years. It’s a kind of music unto itself. This production includes clips from Stone’s early years as a radio DJ and more recently produced music…All contribute to making this listening experience indispensable. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
“A full-fledged, surprisingly forthcoming and witty memoir…An amazing, epic story.”
— San Francisco Chronicle“A showcase for the flair with which he makes language dance.”
— Alta“Fans will certainly appreciate the vivid accounts from recording studios, concert stages, and star-studded parties.”
— Associated Press“Sly Stone is one of pop music’s truest geniuses and greatest mysteries…No one else has fully conjured the remarkable balance of virtuosity and universality, joy and pain…Thank You gives a strong sense of this giant’s voice and sensibility.”
— New York Times Book Review“A forthright telling of his extraordinary rise from musical prodigy to genre-bending superstar, followed by a decline wrought by the intense pressure of success and heavy drug use…Thank You is as complicated and beautiful as Stone himself."
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Sly Stone was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943. He had brief careers as a doo-wop singer, a radio DJ, and a record producer before founding and fronting the group Sly and the Family Stone. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is his first book.
Dion Graham is an award-winning narrator named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Audie Award numerous times, as well as Earphones Awards, the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, IBPA Ben Franklin Awards, and the ALA Odyssey Award. He was nominated in 2015 for a Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Narration. He is also a critically acclaimed actor who has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. He is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, with an MFA degree in acting.