Muscle Shoals music icon Percy Sledge dies

Times Daily ^ | 4/14/2015 | Tom Smith

[Borges]

Leighton native and Muscle Shoals music icon Percy Sledge died this morning at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to longtime friend David Johnson. Sledge was 73. Sledge recorded "When a man Loves a Woman" in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. It was No. 54 in the list of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest songs of all time. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

[Biggirl]

RIP.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Awwww, man! Saw him perform a few years back.

[Mike Darancette]

Good chops RIP. Best make out song ever.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

In "When a Man Loves a Woman" the truest lines you'll ever hear:

"Lovin' eyes can never see."

[fieldmarshaldj]

Enjoyed his talent. RIP.

[SevenofNine]

OHHH how sad one of the radio station always play when a man love a woman during Quiet storm on the Wave 94.7 FM

[Impala64ssa]

RIP

[SevenofNine]

You know what I hear he wrote the song because he going through bad breakup feeling depression he put all his emotions in the song

Sometime best love songs turn out be great breakup song

Look at Eric Clapton Layla

[FlingWingFlyer]

RIP. “When A Man Loves A Woman” is legend.

[ßuddaßudd]

The Muscle Shoals documentary on PBS several months back was most excellent . . .
worth watching

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

ßuddaßudd :" The Muscle Shoals documentary on PBS several months back was most excellent . . .
worth watching"

THe music comming out of "Muscle Shoals" represented local white musicians working with black singers and musicians is legendary (R&B, Blues,Rock ).
Fame Studio:Aretha Franklin, Bono, Alicia Keys, Steve Winwood, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Cliff, Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett,and more.
It was ,..and is , all about the music !

[dfwgator]

Reminds me of the scene in “The Commitments” when one of the member who is devoutly Catholic goes to the Confessional and tells the priest that he no longer sings hymns but “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Marvin Gaye.

The Priest corrects him and points out that Percy Sledge was the one who sang it, and says to him ‘I have the album.’

[Gator113]

May Percy RIP.

I loved his talent. “When a Man Loves a Woman” remains one of my favorites. Little did he know at the time just how much of a relic that concept would become.

Today it could be, ‘When a Man Loves a Man’, or ‘When a Woman Loves a Woman’... and on and on.

Now that I am 66. death at 73 sounds so young.

[dfwgator]

Yes, the new PC non-offensive version, “When a Person Loves Another Person.”

[AngelesCrestHighway]

~ R.I.P. ~

[Albion Wilde]

"When a man Loves a Woman"

The greatest "slow dance" song ever recorded.

[Albion Wilde]

Sometime best love songs turn out be great breakup song

Adele's entire 21 album... great blues songs.

[Gator113]

;>)

[Albion Wilde]

I am such a fan of "The Commitments." Have watched it so many times. Did you know that one of the girls in the band played by Maria Doyle Kennedy also played John Bates' estranged wife in Downton Abbey?