Here are some of the highlights from the R&B legend’s nearly 40 years in the music business. By Neil Gladstone Teddy Pendergrass Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images Teddy Pendergrass , the 59-year-old Philadelphia soul legend who died on January 13 from complications due to colon cancer surgery, may be best remembered for a few things: gravelly ballads delivered sweat-drenched and bare-chested, quiet-storm mainstays such as “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” and “Close the Door” and a 1982 accident in his Rolls Royce that left him paralyzed from the waist down. After that life-changing moment, he went through a gauntlet of surgeries and wrenched his way back to the recording studio (1984’s Love Language ) and the stage (notably a Live Aid in 1985 and later in a late-’90s production of “Your Arms Too Short to Box With God.”) But he had many other memorable moments
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Teddy Pendergrass: A Look Back At His Career
