Percy Sledge, the voice behind R&B classic “When a Man Loves a Woman” and other hits, has died at his Baton Rouge, LA home, reports Billboard. He was 73: During the mid-sixties, Sledge worked ...

Sledge went on to record a dozen hits for Atlantic, including "Warm and Tender Love," "It Tears Me Up," "Out of Left Field" and "Take Time to Know Her." "Sledge's impact after his hit single was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sledge was an icon of the "Muscle Shoals sound," named for the city near his hometown known since the 1960s for local recording studios where hits that shaped American pop music were recorded.

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.

If Percy Sledge had only recorded "When a Man Loves a Woman," one of the greatest of all soul songs, he would have earned his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) — Coroner: Percy Sledge, singer of classic soulful ballad 'When a Man Loves a Woman,' dies at 74... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

NEW ORLEANS -- 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 ...