According to his road manager, pioneer 1970s musician Sly Stone (of Sly & the Family Stone) has a lot of “real interesting ideas,” including once trying to hire “ninja chicks and clowns” for his security entourage. Stone’s latest brainstorm, reported London’s The Guardian in August: form a musical group of albinos, which Stone said “could neutralize all the racial problems” that plague society. “To me,” he said, “albinos are the most legitimate minority group of all.”