L iebeskummer at the age of 24 years, the soul singer Percy Sledge brings a life in the spotlight. Sledge was living by doing odd jobs and entered the weekend in pubs and clubs. When enabled him the friend he warbled in his misfortune one evening that melody into the microphone, he had already buzzed as a child picking cotton, “Happy Together” was born and made Sledge famous. Almost 50 years was associated with him getting this melody. Now Sledge has died at the age of 74 years.
“Percy fought against cancer for a year,” said his manager Mark Lyman. “This morning we regret to say that he has lost this fight. And we have lost a good friend and wonderful artist.” Sledge died at his home in Louisiana. The southern states he has always remained true.
weeks at the top of the charts
His ode to lost love became one of the greatest soul songs ever. She climbed in the US and Canada topped the R & B charts and managed in the UK up to the fourth. In Germany pop singer Manuela had the hit song in their repertoire. In her title was but “When night in Harlem”
“If only he had this brought out a piece out of space in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would be just as safe” The organizers were swarming in March 2005 at his inclusion in the “Hall of Fame”. <"Font" p class => kept B and pop charts and created a breakthrough for Soul Ballads in the mainstream
; exactly 39 years earlier, Sledge had with his song for weeks at the top of the R & amp. his velvety voice and inspired by gospel style was the musician a trademark for heart-wrenching ballads about loneliness and love, attraction and betrayal.
Four albums in a short time
Four albums gave the former nurse late 60s in quick succession out: After “Happy Together” (1966) nor “Warm and Tender Soul” (1966), “The Percy Sledge Way” (1967) and “Take Time & Know Her “(1968). In 1974, “I’ll Be Your Everything”, 1995 “Blue Night”, the end of 2010, the retrospective “The Atlantic Recording”. His latest album, “The Gospel Of Percy Sledge” was released in 2013
And yet. No concert without the man who loves his wife. No later than one Jean publicity and shortly thereafter the soundtrack of Oliver Stone’s Vietnam film “Platoon” (1986) had made the song a legend.
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