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Baaton Rouge - Percy Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad When a Man Loves a Woman, has died. He was 74.
Coroner Dr William "Beau" Clark of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, confirmed to The Associated Press that Sledge died early on Tuesday morning.
Sledge's first recording took him from hospital orderly to a long touring career averaging 100 performances a year and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
