More reunions news now. Well, possible reunions news. Rumour has it that Sly Stone will make a rare performance as part of the all-star tribute to Sly & The Family Stone that will take place at next month's Grammy Awards. Organisers of the awards announced on Friday that Grammy nominees Maroon 5, John Legend and will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas will join Joe Perry, Joss Stone, Robert Randolph and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler to take part in a musical tribute to the legendary funk band at the LA ceremony on 8 Feb.
The Washington Post followed that announcement with a report that friends and associates of the man himself were saying talks were under way to stage a Family Stone reunion as the finale to that tribute segment. It would be Sly Stone's first live performance since 1987, and his first major public appearance since his induction into the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame back in 1993. A spokesman for the awards could not confirm or deny those rumours but told the Post that "we do believe that he is attending the Grammy Awards".
Sony label Epic plan to release a Sly tribute album, which was originally available via Starbucks' music programme last year, on the eve of the Awards.