Sledge and Bolton eventually teamed up to perform the song together. Michael Bolton/Percy Sledge: When A Man Loves A Woman Listen to more of Sledge's classic songs below.

Percy Sledge never matched the height of his first hit, but Lauren Onkey frames it as less of a failure than an act of coming back down to size.

Then, after a greatest hits or three, he seemed to vanish. Until now. Sledge is back, older, even fatter, and still with that weird smile (which keeps making it on to the cover against all odds and ...

Percy Sledge, who has died aged 74, was a soul singer who recorded the classic 1966 ballad When A Man Loves A Woman. Between 1966 and 1968, he used his forlorn vocal style to record a series of ...

Percy Sledge (1941-2015) ‘When A Man Loves A Woman’ was a huge hit around the globe when it was released in 1966, reaching No.1 on the US charts.

Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic "When a Man Loves a Woman," died Tuesday in Louisiana. He ...