Percy Sledge obituary

Soul singer best known for his million-selling hit When a Man Loves a WomanAlthough his career stretched from the 1960s to well into this century, Percy Sledge, who has died of liver cancer aged 74, will always be identified with his first and greatest hit, When a Man Loves a Woman. Driven by Sledge’s passionate, pleading delivery, the million-selling song topped the US pop and R&B charts in 1966 (and reached No 4 in Britain), instantly establishing him as an exceptional talent, even in a