Before fans and media figures ruminated over whether or not Taylor Swift’s wedding ceremony would actually take place at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, another venerated singer and entertainer beat the “Opalite” songstress to the punch.
Bishop B.R. Stewart (third from right) officiates the onstage wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva (together by microphone) during Stone’s concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 5, 1974.
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In June 1974, Sly Stone’s wedding to Kathy Silva took place at MSG, complete with “over 20,000 revved-up wedding guests,” WWD reported. The wedding was billed as “a happening,” per WWD, and featured guests who “beat tambourines, blew silver whistles and howled, ‘Do it again, man! More!'”
The affair, featuring high-profile guests like designer Diane von Furstenberg and singer Eddie Kendricks, featured the bride and groom clad in sequined designs courtesy of American couturier Halston that embodied that quintessential ’70s glam and excess.
Diane von Furstenberg (second from left) attends a reception at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City following Sly Stone’s onstage wedding to Kathy Silva at Madison Square Garden on June 5, 1974.
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“It hardly smacked of till-death-do-us-part devotion, but it
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