US soul singer PERCY SLEDGE, famed for his song When a Man Loves a Woman, has died aged 74 at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday.

SLEDGE had surgery for liver cancer in January 2014 but soon resumed touring.

SLEDGE's debut single When a Man Loves a Woman reached the top 10 twice in the UK and topped the US Billboard chart for two weeks in 1966, when it also got to number four in the UK chart.

The singer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and was a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.