A Sly & the Family Stone tribute took place at the 2006 Grammy Awards on February 8, 2006, at which Stone gave his first live musical performance since 1987.

* Sly, for trombone quartet ( 1987 )

* 1987: Sly & Robbie: Rhythm Killers

* Stone, Irving, Depths of Glory ( 1987 ), Signet, ISBN 0-451-14602-6

Referring to the book's original 1987 publication in a Rolling Stone review pegged to the book's republication in 2002, the critic Jon Caramanica wrote, " It might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime.

The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure of Gordon Gekko who used the phrase " greed is good ", which caught on in the cultural parlance.

Stone and producer Edward R. Pressman took it to 20th Century Fox and filming began in April 1987 and ended on July 4 of the same year.

A limited edition of a thousand copies was published by Scream / Press in October 1985 ( ISBN 978-0910489126 ), illustrated by J. K. Potter, containing an additional short story, " The Revelations of ' Becka Paulson ," which had originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine ( July 19 – August 2, 1984 ), and was later incorporated into King's 1987 novel The Tommyknockers.

Previously in 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it # 9 on " The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years.

" Their 1987 self-titled release was reviewed favorably by Rolling Stone magazine and produced " The Lust, the Flesh, the Eyes & the Pride of Life ," the band's biggest single to date.

In 1987, Stone released a single, " Eek-a-Boo Static Automatic ", from the Soul Man soundtrack, and the song " I'm the Burglar " from the Burglar ( film ) soundtrack.

* Stone Fox ( 1987 ) as Grandpa

Until his death in November 2001, he loved tending to them personally − an activity that a visiting Rolling Stone journalist in 1987 would deem a " decidedly un-rock-star-ish pastime " − and among the groundskeepers were his older brothers Peter and Harry.

In 1987, Born to Run was ranked # 8 by Rolling Stone in its " 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years " and in 2003, in its " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " ranked Born to Run at number 18.

Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom ( 1987 ), Father of the Bride ( 1991 ), The First Wives Club ( 1996 ), Something's Gotta Give ( 2003 ) and The Family Stone ( 2005 ).

In 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number seven on " The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years.

The group was formed in 1987 after the breakup of Wolf's moderately successful rock project Stone Fury.

This led a Rolling Stone writer to note in 1987, " It's hard for anyone raised on rock to imagine that a band could sound this loud without thousands of watts of amplification.

* Shadow of the Stone ( 1987 )

Following James ' descent into drug abuse and his exit from Motown, the Stone City Band and the Mary Jane Girls both dissolved in 1987.

1987 would see another personnel change within the band as Kim Stone left the band and the bass was taken over by Roberto Vally for the Stories Without Words album.

* 20th century famous residents have included Richard Beckinsale, former footballer Gary Lineker, British pop group Five Star who resided at the Stone Court estate, London Road, between 1987 and 1990, Chesney Hawkes, Brian Blessed, Diana Dors and Billy Ocean.

He portrayed a gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone ( 1987 ) and Travis Walton in the fact-based 1993 film Fire in the Sky.

In an early 1987 Rolling Stone list of their top 100 albums from 1967 – 1987, Squeezing Out Sparks was ranked at No. 45, while Howlin ' Wind came in at No. 54.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.

In 1987, that company was renamed to Aon, a Gaelic word meaning oneness.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

The overall population in 1987 was estimated at about 5, 000.

The common law offence of affray was abolished for England and Wales on 1 April 1987.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.

The most recent case was in early 1987, which was the most severe winter in Scandinavia since that date.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix which was capable to give the user a complete graphical interface, featuring rich graphic content, changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded.

The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

Turbo C was released on May 18, 1987 and an estimated 100, 000 copies were shipped in the first month of its release.

One of the other songs from the project called " European Boy " was recorded in 1987 by disco group Splash.