Percy Sledge: Gone Fishin'
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 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 soul giant from the Southern swamps.
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