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Film documenting Skynyrd Plane crash premierss at film festival (2-16-2020)

Legendary producer Rick Hall dies at 85 (1-2-2018)

Court ruling grounds Skynyrd plane crash movie (8-28-2017)

Suit filed seeks to end production of a film based on 1977 Lynyrd Skynryd plane crash (6-20-2017)

Gary Rossington releasing solo album with wife (9-21-2016)

Another heart surgery for Gary Rossington (7-21-2016)

Rossington health concerns cause Skynyrd to pull out of New York concert (7-19-2016)

Artimus Powell writing and producing biopic (6-25-2016)

Original Skynyrd drummer dies in car crash (4-3-2015)

Lynyrd Skynyrd schedules first & second album concerts (12-19-2014)

Skynyrd tribute concert set for Atlanta (8-12-2014)

Alabama identifies formally with Skynyrd song (7-22-2014)

Skynyrd setting sail for the last time (3-26-2014)

7th Simple Man Cruise Announced (2-25-2013)

Gary Rossington hospitalized in Wyoming (2-15-2013)

Gary Rossington defends use of Confederate flag (9-24-12)

Isaac Causes Cancelation of Skynyrd GOP Concert (8-26-12)

Republicans Want Rock & Skynyrd  (6-17-2012)

New Album, Tour & Bass Player For Skynyrd  (5-2-2012)

Ronnie Van Zant Burial Plot Revealed (4-20-2012)

Skynyrd Set To Rev Up Indy Fans  (1-10-2012)

Vegas Gets Skynyrd Rib Joint (12/9/2011)

Johnny Van Zant  Hospitalized (8-9-2011)

Skynyrd Set To Record (7/1/2011)
Skynyrd Restaurant In Vegas (5-23-
2011)

Skynyrd Namesake Dies (9/21/2010)

Lynyrd Skynyrd Honored In DC (6-21-2010)

Skynyrd Back With Live Set (5-12-2010)

'Bama Battle Over Skynyrd Song (3-720-10)

Artimus Powell found Not Guilty (8-29-2009)

Former drummer faces another legal battle  (8-13-2009)

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Kid Rock concert drinking bust nets tour bus driver (7-15-2009)

Artimus Pyle rips into former band (7-10-2009)

Lynyrd Skynyrd cruise returns (6-18-2009)

Release date set for new album (5-23-2009)

Bass player Ean Evans dies (5-6-2009)

Lynyrd Skynyrd recording (3-17-2009)

Billy Powell dies in Florida  (1-28-2009)

Skynyrd song lands on Alabama license plates (10-19-2008)

NOTEWORTHY Dates

 

10 8 2015 Gary Rossington suffers heart attack (story)

  2 14 2013 Gary Rossington hospitalized with abdominal infeection in Wyoming (story)
  8 26 2012
Isaac Causes Cancelation of Skynyrd GOP Concert

12 08 2011 Skynyrd BBQ opens in Las Vegas (story)
  9 20 2010 Leonard Skinner, teacher band adapted name from dies at 77 (story)
  9 29 2009 God & Guns released
  5 06 2009 Ean Evans (bass) dies of cancer [story]
  1 28 2009 Billy Powell dies after EMS responds to 911 call [story]
  9 14 2005 Johnny Van Zandt has polyp removedfrom vocal chord in Nashville hospital
  4 28 1998 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases "Lyve From Steel Town"
  4 29 1997 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases "Twenty"
  9 25 1995 Ed King hospitalized in Atlanta for heart failure
  8     1994 Endangered Species released
  5 18 1993 Ronnie Van Zant Park dedicated in Clay County Florida
  3     1993 The Last Rebel released
         1991 Lynyrd Skynyrd released
  1 23 1990 Allen Collins dies of pneumonia after long hospitalization (
         1989 Skynyrd's Innyrds released
11      1987 Legend released
         1987 Southern By The Grace Of God released
  1 26 1986 Allen Collins paralyzed and lady friend killed in car wreck
  2 13 1982 Ronnie Van Zant's gravestone stolen from Orange Park Fla cemetery
        1982 Best Of The Rest released
        1979 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases "Gold & Platinum"
10     1978 Lynyrd Skynyrd's First And… Last released
10 20 1977 Plane crash kills Ronnie Van Zant, Steve & Cassie Gaines and manager, Gillsburg MS
10     1977 Street Survivors released
  2 29 1977 Band brawls with guests at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel
10     1976 One More For The Road released
  9 06 1976 Gary Rossington badly injured in car wreck, Jacksonville Fla.
  3     1976 Gimme Back My Bullets released
  3 24 1975 Nuthin' Fancy released
  4 15 1974 Second Helping released
         1973 Pronounced "leh-nerd 'skin nerd" released
12 04 1952 Gary Rossington born, Jacksonville
  7 19 1952 Allen Collins born, Jacksonville (dies 1/23/90)
  6 03 1952 Billie Powell born
  4 02 1952 Leon Wilkeson born (Dies 7-27-2001)
  9 14 1949 Steve Gaines born, Seneca MO. (joins 11/76, dies 10/20/77)
  7 15 1948 Artimus Pyle born, Spartanburg SC

1 15 1948 Ronnie Van Zant born, Jacksonville (dies 10/20/77)