found: Platoon [SR] p1987:label (Percy Sledge)
found: New Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll(Sledge, Percy; b. Nov. 25, 1940, Leighton, Ala.)
found: Contemporary musicians:v. 15 (Sledge, Percy; b. Nov. 25, 1940, Leighton, AL; rhythm and blues singer, songwriter)
found: Int. ww in mus. Vol. 2, Pop. mus., 1st ed.(Sledge, Percy; b. Nov. 25, 1941, Leighton, Ala.; soul singer)
found: All Music Guide WWW site, Mar. 8, 2001(Percy Sledge; b. Nov. 25, 1941, Leighton, AL)
found: Grove music online, November 20, 2013(Sledge, Percy; born November 25, 1941, Leighton, AL; American soul singer)
found: New York times online, April 15, 2015(Percy Sledge, the R&B singer whose soulful ballad of eternal love and rejection, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” topped the charts in 1966, died on Tuesday [April 14, 2015] in Baton Rouge, La. He was 74. Mr. Sledge, sometimes called the King of Slow Soul, was a sentimental crooner and one of the South's first soul stars, having risen to fame from jobs picking cotton and working as a hospital orderly while performing at clubs and colleges on the weekends. Percy Tyrone Sledge was born on Nov. 25, 1940, in Leighton, Ala.) - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/music/percy-sledge-who-sang-when-a-man-loves-a-woman-dies-at-74.html?_r=0
