Percy Sledge's timeless tune is one of the most iconic soul songs ever recorded.

Percy Sledge, the Alabama-born soul balladeer whose emotional, pleading style propelled “When a Man Loves a Woman” to the top of the pop and rhythm-and-blues and charts in 1966 and made the song one ...

Soul singer Percy Sledge epitomized Southern soul in ballads like "When A Man Loves A Woman," which became a massive international hit when it came out in 1966. Sledge died Tuesday morning of natural ...

Rhino Records has just released the complete Atlantic recordings of Percy Sledge. Fresh Air's rock historian Ed Ward listens back to the country soul singer's hits, some of which have never before ...

But what a hit it was for Sledge, who died Tuesday at his Baton Rouge home at the age of 74. It soared to No. 1 on both the pop and R&B charts in 1966, and he rode it to a music career that lasted ...

The way soul singer Percy Sledge often told the story, his unexpected entry into pop music immortality came out of a Christmas party performance gone south. Sledge, who had been working as a hospital ...