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Percy Sledge has died. He was 74. He died of natural causes. Sledge was something of a journeyman soul singer, or would have been were it not for that remarkable, signature song, When A Man Loves A Woman.
Sledge had a few other hits, but nothing quite matched When A Man Loves A Woman.
Well, how could it.
Almost everything was perfect about this heartbreak…
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