Percy Sledge, singer of 'When a Man Loves a Woman,' dead at 74

Percy Sledge, singer of classic soulful ballad "When a Man Loves a Woman," died on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was 74. Dr. William "Beau" Clark, coroner for East Baton Rouge Parish, confirmed to The Associated Press that Sledge died early Tuesday morning, about an hour after midnight of natural causes in hospice care. A No. 1 hit in 1966, "When a Man Loves a Woman" was Sledge's debut single, an almost unbearably heartfelt ballad with a resonance he never approached again. Few singers could have. It...