R&B and soul singer Percy Sledge has passed away at 73. He had a number of hits, including 15 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, but the piece of his legacy likely to be remembered by most fans is ...

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 ...

Percy Sledge was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the New York's Waldorf Astoria in 2005 Having recorded the song Quinn Ivy had little idea what to do with it.

Despite having other hits Sledge became known for "When a Man Loves a Woman." It was the first No. 1 hit from Muscle Shoals, and the first gold record for Atlantic Records.

Yet the influence of his greatest song influenced such hits as Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" that blended Sledge's soul with the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, Covach told AFP. Sledge was ...

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 ...

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.

A No. 1 hit in 1966, “When a Man Loves a Woman” was Sledge’s debut single, an almost unbearably heartfelt ballad.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...