![]() In April, Synyrd released Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live at Knebworth ‘76, a DVD, CD and LP set documenting a classic-line performance from the U.K.’s Knebworth Festival in 1976. Kansas, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Blackberry Smoke, Allman Betts Band and the Marshall Tucker Band will also appear on select shows. The Big Wheels Keep on Turnin’ Tour includes an array of special guests, including Eighties rockers Tesla on most dates. The other band members Collins, Gary Rossington, Wilkeson, Powell, Artimus Pyle, and Hawkins, tour manager Ron Eckerman, and several road crew suffered. Lynyrd Skynyrd performed their first show since the start of the pandemic this past weekend, headlining the opening night of the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam in Panama City Beach, Florida. Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines, along with backup singer Cassie Gaines (Steve’s older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray died. We’re still standing, still keeping the music going.” “And maybe it’s our time to lift people’s spirits and lives and bring back some joy and happiness after so much turmoil this past year. Ronnie Van Zant - Gary Rossington - Allen Collins - Leon Wilkeson Bob Burns - Billy Powell - Ed King - Artimus Pyle - Steve Gaines Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed Southern Rock groups of the 1970's. Maybe it’s not our time to go,” Rossington said. ![]() The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant. And since that time, we have been talking amongst the band, and realized that music has such a way of healing. Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. ![]()
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