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Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd-SKIN-ərd is an American rock band best known for popularizing the southern hard-rock genre during the 1970s.
Originally formed in 1964 as My Backyard in Jacksonville, Florida, the band used various names such as The Noble Five and One Percent, before coming up with Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1969.
The band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its live performances and signature tunes "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird".
At the peak of their success, three members died in an airplane crash in 1977, putting an abrupt end to the band's most popular incarnation.
The surviving band members re-formed in 1987 for a reunion tour with lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant, the younger brother of lead singer and founder Ronnie Van Zant.
The re-formed band continues to tour and record with co-founding member Gary Rossington and core members Johnny Van Zant, along with guitarist Rickey Medlocke, who recorded with the band in the early 1970s. Drummer Michael Cartellone has recorded and toured with the band since 1999.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006.
Following a performance at Greenville, South Carolina, on October 20, 1977 the band boarded a CV-300 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to appear at LSU.
Due to a faulty engine, the airplane crashed five miles northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi.
Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray were killed on impact; the other band members (Collins, Rossington, Wilkeson, Powell, Pyle, and Hawkins), tour manager Ron Eckerman, and road crew suffered serious injuries.
The accident came just three days after the release of Street Survivors. Following the crash and the ensuing press, Street Survivors became the band's second platinum album.
Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded after the tragedy, reuniting just once to perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" at Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam V in January 1979.
Collins, Rossington, Powell and Pyle performed the song with Charlie Daniels and his band.
Leon Wilkeson, who was still undergoing physical therapy for his badly broken left arm, was in attendance, along with Judy Van Zant, Teresa Gaines, JoJo Billingsley, and Leslie Hawkins.
In 1980, Allen Collins' wife Kathy died of a massive hemorrhage while miscarrying their third child.
He formed the Allen Collins Band in 1983 from the remnants of the Rossington-Collins Band and released one album, but many around him believed that the guitarist's heart just was not in it anymore.
Most point to his wife's death as the moment that Collins' life began to spin out of control; he spent several years binging on drugs and alcohol.
In 1986, Collins crashed his car while driving drunk in Jacksonville, killing his girlfriend and leaving himself permanently paralyzed from the chest down. Collins pled no contest to DUI manslaughter, but was not given a prison sentence since he would never drive or be a danger to society again.
In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the pre-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash.
Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, took over as the new lead singer and primary songwriter.
Due to Collins' paralysis, he was only able to participate as the musical director, choosing Randall Hall, his former bandmate in the Allen Collins Band, as his stand-in.
As part of his plea deal, Collins would be wheeled out onstage each night to explain to the audience why he could no longer perform (usually before "That Smell", which had been directed at him).
Collins was stricken with pneumonia in 1989 and died on January 23, 1990.
On January 28, 2009, keyboardist Billy Powell died of a suspected heart attack at age 56 at his home near Jacksonville, Florida.
No autopsy was ever carried out. Powell's death left Gary Rossington as the sole pre-crash member still in the band, unless Rickey Medlocke is counted.
On May 2, 2012, the band announced the impending release of a new studio album, Last of a Dyin' Breed, along with a North American and European tour.
On August 21, 2012, Last of a Dyin' Breed was released.
While promoting the album September 9, 2012, members of the band talked about its discontinued use of Confederate imagery.
In September 2012, the band briefly did not display the Confederate Flag, which had for years been a part of their stage show, because of racists who had adopted the flag.
After protests they reversed this decision, noting it is part of their Southern American heritage and states rights symbolism.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the group No. 95 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
On November 28, 2005, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that Lynyrd Skynyrd would be inducted alongside Black Sabbath, and the Sex Pistols.
They were inducted on March 13, 2006 during the Hall's 21st annual induction ceremony.
The inductees included Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, Ed King, Steve Gaines, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson, Bob Burns, and Artimus Pyle.
The current version of Skynyrd, augmented by King, Pyle, Burns and former Honkettes JoJo Billingsley, and Leslie Hawkins, performed "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird" at the ceremony, which was also attended by Judy Van Zant Jenness and Ronnie's two daughters, Teresa Gaines and her daughter Corinna, Allen Collins' daughters, and Leon Wilkeson's mother and son.
In October 2008, Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Free Bird"'s solo was named the 3rd greatest guitar solo by Guitar World. In September 2010, Lynyrd Skynyrd was named No. 77 VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Tracklist
1. "Sweet Home Alabama" (Ed King, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 7:29
2. "Free Bird" (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 14:25
Both tracks taken from One More From the Road
Personnel Line up from The Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia 1976.
Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
Steve Gaines - guitar, backing vocals
Allen Collins – guitar
Gary Rossington – guitar, keyboards
Billy Powell – keyboards
Leon Wilkeson – bass, backing vocals
Artimus Pyle – drums
JoJo Billingsley, Cassie Gaines, Leslie Hawkins – backing vocals
These two songs are probably the most requested songs from their catalog
And yes: He will Ask you "What song is it you want to Hear?"
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