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Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman Cover Art 1966

21/4/15 – Percy Sledge – 25th November 1941 – 14th April 2015 / When A Man Loves A Woman – 1966

In the wrong hands, When A Man Loves A Woman might be considered the ultimate in schmaltz, but when Sledge sang it with that powerful emotionally charged voice, he gave the song such anguish, such truth that you could feel it too and literally live through the pain of the break-up he himself had gone through. Overplayed to […]