Percy Sledge
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Percy Sledge: The Best Of Percy Sledge
Interview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 13 December 1969
PERCY SLEDGE is here for a three-week tour, and to coincide with it Atlantic have released a single, 'True Love Travels On A Gravel Road', ...
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Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1994
The sould legend from the Quad-cities, Tri-states area on Otis, Bobby Womack, his love of country music, and the making of the National Anthem of North-West Alabama, 'When A Man Loves A Woman'.
File format: mp3; file sizes: 78.4meg, interview length: 1h 21' 42" sound quality: ***
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 2010
The late, great Percy Sledge looks back at his Alabama youth; cutting the classic 'When a Man Loves a Woman'; the great songwriters and musicians – Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham et al; and talks about his favourite singers and his love of country music.
File format: mp3; file size: 65mb, interview length: 1h 11' 01" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Singles from Them, Tom Jones, Percy Sledge et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966
Sandie's improved — this is a big hit ...
The Rolling Stones, Percy Sledge et al: The Week's New Singles
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 14 May 1966
Plenty of tips, including a new Stones. Many follow-ups which aren't marvellous, and some outsiders, including Percy Sledge and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds ...
Percy Sledge: Blues Singer's Gamble Paid Off
Profile by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 May 1966
TIME WAS when the biggest stars of show business had names like "Rock Stone" or "Lex Treason" — strong, rugged names that helped to give ...
The Incredible Hit Story of Percy Sledge
Profile and Interview by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966
Hollywood, Tuesday ...
Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 1 July 1966
SOUND MARS SPECTACULAR ...
EXHAUSTED! — That's The Price Percy Sledge Is Paying
Profile and Interview by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 8 July 1966
Special from Tracy Thomas in Hollywood ...
New singles from the Beatles, Small Faces, Percy Sledge et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 6 August 1966
THIS IS THE BEST BEATLE SONG EVER! ...
Percy Sledge — An Exciting New Soul Star
Profile by Mick Brown, Soulbeat, Summer 1966
IF NOTHING else 1966 has certainly, so far, been a time of exciting new changes and discoveries in the ever-expanding R&B world. At last people ...
Singles From the Four Tops, Percy Sledge et al
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967
A lack of new ideas but another Tops success ...
Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Percy Sledge et al: New Albums Reviewed by Norman Jopling and Peter Jones
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 14 January 1967
Rhythm & Blues galore! ...
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Them, Beach Boys, Kinks et al: Singles Reviews
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967
A multitude of newies this week including Presley, Dylan, & Beach Boys ...
Sam & Dave, Arthur Conley, Percy Sledge et al: Finsbury Park Astoria, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
ALL SOUL CAN sometimes be a little too much for one whole show. But the Soul Explosion package tour going around at the moment manages ...
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 6 December 1969
THREE YEARS ago an unknown singer recorded what was to become one of the greatest soul ballads of all time. ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 23 October 1970
PERCY SLEDGE made a fleeting visit to London recently on his way to Holland to receive an award. Naturally, B&S got together with him and ...
Percy Sledge: The Venue, London
Live Review by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, 14 April 1979
THE SIMPLISTIC idea that the fundamental difference between country and soul in the Sixties was that one music was made by poor whites in the ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1987
Percy Sledge: Town & Country Club, London ...
Report by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 14 March 1987
The only definite sighting of PERCY SLEDGE in recent weeks has been in the UK Top Ten. BARNEY HOSKYNS reviews the career of the elusive ...
Percy Sledge: A Beautiful Life
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, December 1994
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1967, THE MACON, GEORGIA, office of Phil Walden and Associates, management and booking agents, was thronging with the most heavyweight soul ...
Out Of Left Cotton Field: The Brokenhearted Country Soul Of Percy Sledge
Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Complete Atlantic Recordings' (Rhino), 2010
PERCY SLEDGE IS as prone to romanticizing Muscle Shoals as the many music writers who rhapsodize about the area in pieces about local luminaries like ...
Obituary by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2015
Percy Sledge's 'When A Man Loves A Woman' transcended time and place, says Mick Brown. ...
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