In their family’s Jacksonville home, growing up Johnny Van Zant shared a bedroom and bunkbeds with his older brother Ronnie Van Zant. When Ronnie’s band, which became the Southern rock juggernaut ...
Despite the song being a showcase for legendary Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, who had overcome ill health just to be at the show, Van Zant called the song to a halt when he realized that ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1976 - Getty On an early summer’s day in 1973, while waiting for the last of his bandmates to arrive for ...
CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 1976: Members of Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (L-R Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins) pose by their trailer backstage at an ...
Drummer Artimus Pyle is one cool cat. And, like a cat, he has nine lives, maybe more. Remember the infamous 1977 plane crash that killed members of his rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead ...