Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
Gene Odom
Jan 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Arthur Flavell
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In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to play covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and the country and blues–rock music they had grown to love. Naming their band after Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher at Robert E. Lee Senior High School who constantly badgered the long-haired aspiring musicians to get haircuts, they were soon playing gigs at parties, and bars throughout the South. During the next decade Lynyrd Skynyrd grew into the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful of the rock bands to emerge from the South since the Allman Brothers. Their hits "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama" became classics. Then, at the height of its popularity in 1977, the band was struck with tragedy—a plane crash that killed Ronnie Van Zant and two other band members.
For the fans who have purchased a cumulative 35 million copies of Lynyrd Skynyrd's albums and continue to pack concerts today, Lynyrd Skynyrd is a celebration of an immortal American band.
For the fans who have purchased a cumulative 35 million copies of Lynyrd Skynyrd's albums and continue to pack concerts today, Lynyrd Skynyrd is a celebration of an immortal American band.
In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to play covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and the country and blues–rock music they had grown to love. Naming their band after Leonard Skinner, the gym te...
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Gene Odom was Ronnie Van Zant's lifelong friend, frequent member of Lynyrd Skynyrd's entourage, and was also aboard the plane on the fateful flight that killed Van Zant and two other band members.
Arthur Flavell has worked in a variety of occupational fields, ranging from construction to broadcast radio and television to aviation.
Gene Odom was Ronnie Van Zant's lifelong friend, frequent member of Lynyrd Skynyrd's entourage, and was also aboard the plane on the fateful flight that killed Van Zant and two other band members. Arthur Flavell has worked in a variety of occupational fields, ranging from construction to broadcas...
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