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March 6, 2006

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2006: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gary Rossington discusses how life happened to his band
April 22, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 95) Lynyrd Skynyrd

By Al Kooper
April 18, 2003

Skynyrd Fly Again With Hit

"Red White and Blue" puts southern rockers back on radio
October 15, 2002

Skynyrd Fly Again in New Books

Band members, friends recall band's fast rise and fall

Street Survivors [Deluxe Edition]

Three days after the release of Street Survivors, in 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in a plane crash that severely injured the rest of the band members. But even without the added resonance of tragedy, the album's second track, "That Smell," would...

2008 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Lynyrd Skynyrd was the most critically lauded and commercially successful of the Allman Brothers-influenced Southern bands. When Lynyrd Skynyrd first rose to prominence in 1973, the group epitomized regional pride that stressed cocky, boisterous hard rock, as opposed to the Allmans' open-ended blues. When the band broke up in 1977 after a plane crash killed Ronnie Van Zant and newcomer Steve Gaine...

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