First British top ten hit was "Tired of Being Alone" (1971).

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.

He was voted the 65th Greatest Rock `n` Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.

During a 1979 concert in Cincinnati, fell off the stage and narrowly escaped serious injury. Considering the incident a warning from God, he has devoted himself to the ministry since.

In the second half of the 1950s he and his three brothers formed a gospel vocal quartet called the Greene Brothers. Al`s father dismissed him from the group in 1960 after catching him listening to what he called the "profane music" of Jackie Wilson.

Was nominated for Broadway`s 1983 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God."

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

While showering in his Memphis home in October 1974, his ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson burst in and poured boiling hot grits over him and then turned a gun on herself. Green was hospitalised with second-degree burns.

His recording of `Let`s Stay Together` (Hi 2202) was the biggest R&B hit of the 1970`s, spending nine weeks at #1 on Billboard. The song also topped Billboard`s `Hot 100` pop charts in 1972.