He has cited acts like Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, and Stevie Wonder as influences.

" Character names are changed, plot points are altered ( Kate has two sisters for example, not one ), the play is set in Athens instead of Padua, Sly continues to comment on events throughout the play, and entire speeches are completely different ( lines from other plays are also found in A Shrew, especially from Marlowe's Tamburlaine ), all of which suggests that the author / reporter of A Shrew thought he ( or she ) was working on something different to Shakespeare's play, not simply transcribing it.

Evidence of at least some initial societal discomfort with The Shrew is found in a contemporary alternative version that has Christopher Sly being " by his wife for dreaming here tonight " at the end of the play, suggesting that there was a market for an audience who were comfortable with the women ' winning '.

Critics have argued about the meaning of the Induction for many years, and according to Oliver, " it has become orthodoxy to claim to find in the Induction the same ' theme ' as is to be found in both the Bianca and the Katherine-Petruchio plots of the main play, and to take it for granted that identity of theme is a merit and ' justifies ' the introduction of Sly.

In 1931, Harcourt Williams used the conclusion of A Shrew ( in which, after the Petruchio / Katherina story is finished, the Lord returns the now sleeping Sly to the inn where he was found, and who, upon waking up, announces he has had a dream in which he has learned how to tame his own wife ).

It was named after its discoverer William S. Sly ( 1932 -), an American Biochemist, in 1969 who has spent nearly his entire academic career at Saint Louis University.

Sly syndrome has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

Almost the whole of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot ( unless Katharina's subservience to her " lord " in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker ) and is often dropped in modern productions.

He has been cited as one of the foremost innovators of funk music, along with James Brown and Sly Stone.

Since the late 1980s, Worrell has recorded extensively with Bill Laswell, including Sly and Robbie's Laswell-produced Rhythm Killers.

In the early 1980s Sly Stone was also part of a George Clinton / Funkadelic family project with Muruga Booker called " The Soda Jerks ," who recorded an album worth of material, all of which has gone unreleased, except for one song, however Muruga has plans of still releasing the project.

Much of his work has been ignored, although a performance in 1999 of Sly by the Washington National Opera ( the work's American premiere ) marked something of a revival of interest in his works.

One of the most influential albums ever recorded, Sly & the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin ' On ( 1971 ) has been considered among the first and best examples of the matured version of funk music, after prototypical instances of the sound in the group's earlier work.

Noddy is kind and honest, but he often gets in trouble, either through his own misunderstandings, or because someone ( usually the naughty goblins Sly and Gobbo ) has played a trick on him.

He was a member of the seminal Congolese rumba group African Jazz, and has collaborated with many other musicians, including Fania All Stars, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Don Cherry, and Sly and Robbie.

* Sly Sludge has a Smog Ring ( counterpart of Wind ).

He even wrote and produced new albums for grammy-award winning singer Michael Rose of Black Uhuru, and has worked with other notable Reggae figures such as Sly Dunbar, half of one of the most influential partnerships in reggae music, Sly & Robbie.

Modern scholars reject the Shakespearean attribution ; speculation, relying on common initials, has shone on Wentworth Smith and William Sly as possible alternatives.

Abbruzzese has cited John Bonham, Sly & the Family Stone, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers as influences.

The show was highly praised for its realism and sensitivity, with a New York Times reviewer applauding the program's avoidance of stereotyping characters: " Sly, a jiving black student ... has solidly middle-class parents deeply involved in classical music " and a lower-middle-class classmate discovers that her father makes more money as a plumber than James ' professor father.

He has cited several musicians as his inspirations, including Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, and Donny Hathaway.

He had already been replaced by Pat Rizzo ( ex Sly and the Family Stone ) in 1979.

The Stax labels ' profits were cut severely, particularly since the CBS distribution agents bypassed the traditional small mom-and-pop record sellers in the black community which had been the backbone of Stax's distribution, and weren't pushing the Stax product to the larger retailers for fear of undercutting rack space for CBS R & B artists such as Earth Wind and Fire, The Isley Brothers, and Sly & the Family Stone.

Sly then renewed his attentions towards Lorena, making his character much less obnoxious and more charming than he'd previous been portrayed as, and by the midpoint of Season 4 they became a couple and remained one for the rest of the series.

The Wolfman theme, Sly & the Family Stone's " I Want To Take You Higher ", had not yet been cleared, so the opening was altered with new music by The Tijuana Bibles from Toronto, and Billy Van's voice was redubbed by another Toronto voice actor ( Van died in 2003 ).

Whitmore ’ s parents were George Knaggs, who had been born in London, England, and Rachel Sly, who had Dutch parentage.

Where earlier soul and R & B artists like Stevie Wonder, War, Sly Stone and others had been championed by the format, AOR was no longer representing these styles, and took a stance against disco.

Aboard the air fortress, Sly infiltrates the main blimp where the Clockwerk parts are being reassembled, and finds that Neyla has been working directly for Arpeggio.

Confronting Arpeggio, Sly discovers that Arpeggio has converted his blimp into an enormous transmitter which will unleash a hypnotic light show of hate over Paris and ( with its population having been made susceptible to hypnosis, courtesy of Dimitri feeding spice to the entire city ), the lights will cause an enormous wellspring of hatred which Arpeggio will channel into the Clockwerk frame with him inside it, causing him to become immortal.

He has been collaborating with many acts including Sly Silver Sly, Regency Buck, Scanners, Jackos One, Mellow, Bob's Symphonic Orchestra, Cathy Burton and DJ Daniele Tignino.

First, Sly and Bentley decide to first find Murray, who left the team due to Bentley's leg injury, but learns a mob boss Octavio who " runs " Venice, Italy where Murray has been sighted recently.

Murray refuses to rejoin the gang until he fulfills the task the Guru gave to him, to wait until the canals are clean, forcing Sly and Bentley to take down Octavio who has been polluting the canals with tar as part of a scheme to threaten the city into liking opera again, by sinking buildings.

The game then returns to the present, where Sly is struggling with M. As he's about to be eaten, Sly realizes he's been " cowardly " towards Carmelita, regretting never telling her how he really feels about her.

Kevin Miller, the voice actor who voices Sly, has also confirmed that he has been contacted about voicing Sly in Sly 4, furthering its possibility.

The song has been credited for being one of the first full-fledged funk songs around the same time as artists like James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone brought their own funk anthems to the scene.

The song is one of Sly & the Family Stone's signature songs, and has been covered by a number of acts, including Diana Ross & the Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Commodores, Miles Davis ( during the Jack Johnson sessions ), The Meters, Prince, The Budos Band, Maceo Parker and others.

He has been a member of Warren Zevon's touring band and the Tomcats with members of Sly and the Family Stone.

Although their earlier success has not been repeated, they went on to work with Sly & Robbie.

Sly Stone ( born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1944 ) was a member of a deeply religious middle-class household from Dallas, Texas.

The album was based largely on loops and featured heavy use of horns and flutes and deliberately moved away from the bands guitar sound as Power claimed the band " wanted to come back with something that feels fresh and enticing " and described the material as groovier and talked of having a desire of " combining this sort of Marley and funkadelic stuff or Sly and the Family that I ’ ll get into as much as I get into Townshend and Lennon ".

Tambor first moved to repertory theater, later making his Broadway debut in the comedy Sly Fox ( 1976 ), appearing with George C. Scott and directed by Arthur Penn.

Foxwell J. Sly has his assistant Simon Able spread the word that he is wealthy, dying, making a will, and might be moved to make a bequest if showered with gifts.

After Temptations lead singer David Ruffin was replaced with Dennis Edwards in 1968, Whitfield moved the group into a harder, darker sound that featured a blend of psychedelic rock and funk heavily inspired by the work of Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic and also began changing the subject matter of the songs, moving away from love songs to the social issues of the time, such as war, poverty and politics.

He tells Sly he has moved onto being a trainee for a peace loving figure known as the Guru in order to become more peaceful.