Lynyrd Skynyrd has given rock music some of its most beloved live anthems. It's even become a humorous tradition among ...

October 20th will mark the 47th anniversary of the plane crash of Southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd. "Sweet Home Alabama" ...

TUPELO — When the Convair CV-240 plane carrying members of the legendary Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a forest near Gillsburg, Mississippi, on the evening of Oct. 20, 1977 ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd were just five shows into the biggest tour of their relatively young career when on Oct. 20, 1977, the chartered plane flying them to their next gig ran out of fuel and crashed into ...

Southern rock was around before Lynyrd Skynyrd released their debut album ... which released five albums before a plane crash in 1977 claimed the lives of singer Ronnie Van Zant and others ...

They settled on the name Lynyrd Skynyrd - a dig at their high school ... Eerily, three days after it was released, a plane carrying the band between shows crashed in Mississippi, killing Van ...

“We saw each other all the time,” says Easley, a man so seemingly kind and gentle that you wouldn’t think he’d have the temerity to face down the kind of blood and suffering he witnessed the night ...