Music: PERCY SLEDGE A SOUL SINGER DIES AT 74.

The American soul singer percy sledge died at 74, he is famed for his song 'When a Man Loves a Woman' which reached the top 10 twice in the UK and topped the US Billboard chart for two weeks in 1966, when it also got to number four in the UK chart. He recounts his experience in his first appearance in the music world and his firt recording experience, hear him out;


“When I came into the studio, I was shaking like a leaf. I was scared,” he said, adding that it was the “same melody that I sang when I was out in the fields. I just wailed out in the woods and let the echo come back to me”.
He told BBC Radio 6 Music’s Craig Charles in a 2011 interview that he came up with the melody for When A Man Loves A Woman, but signed away the rights of the song to Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright, because “I didn’t know any better”. May his soul rest in peace. Am-------