Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within two days of each other. Each was 82.

Revolutionary funk musician Sly Stone, whose Sly and the Family Stone redefined popular music in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, has passed away at age 82. Born Sylvester Stewart, Sly Stone had been in poor health over the last few years.