Sly Stone homeless - live in a van

Unfortunately, by the 1980s, the spark was gone, and Sly Stone made the poor decision to sell Michael Jackson the publishing rights to his music for just a million bucks.

Sly Stone, one of the pioneers of funk music as mastermind for Sly and the Family Stone, is now homeless and living out of a white van in Los Angeles.

Stone, now 68, is suing his manager Jerry Goldstein for $50 million,