Rossington formed what would become a Southern rock behemoth in 1964 with singer Ronnie Van Zant – who died in the plane crash following a concert in Greenville, South Carolina – guitarist ...

Gary Rossington playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in 1976, a year before a plane crash killed three band members. Tom Hill/WireImage, via Getty Images ...

Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd seen at KAABOO Texas at AT&T Stadium on Saturday, May 11, 2019, in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP) Amy Harris/Invision/AP ...

A horrific plane crash took the lives of members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their road crew and both the pilot and co-pilot on Oct. 20, 1977, irrevocably altering the course of the Southern rock outfit ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and continues to tour. Guitarist Gary Rossington was the last founding member of the band. Rossington died in 2023. He was 71.

And Rossington, who got into an auto accident a year before the plane crash that inspired Skynyrd’s hit “That Smell,” noted in 2018 that he had a “lot of medical stuff.

Skynyrd reunited in 1987, with Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson, Pyle and guitarist Ed King — who had left the band two years before the crash — joined by Ronnie Van Zant's younger ...

October 20th will mark the 47th anniversary of the plane crash of Southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd. "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird" are Lynyrd Skynyrd's most notable songs.

Read our account of the 1977 plane crash that claimed the life of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant, including new recollections from a survivor.

The group's career would come to a tragic halt just three days later, on Oct. 20, 1977, when their twin engine plane went down in a swamp in Gillsburg, Miss., killing three of the band members, a ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd, a Southern rock institution that blasted out of Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969, was traveling in the band plane from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge to play a show at ...

After the plane crash, but before Skynyrd regrouped, Rossington formed the Rossington-Collins Band with his future wife, Dale Krantz, and fellow Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins, which lasted only ...