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May 19, 2009

Kid Rock Grabs Lynyrd Skynyrd, More Spectacle for Summer Tour

"I like to focus on really giving people a good show," Kid Rock says
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

Recordings and Reviews

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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Biography

Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd rose to prominence in 1973 epitomizing regional pride and stressing cocky, boisterous hard rock as opposed to the Allman Brothers' more open-ended blues. Their signature song, "Freebird," complete with it five-minute three-guitar attack solo, is easily the most requested live song in existence. When the band broke up in 1977, after Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines a...

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