CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 1976: Members of Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (L-R Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins) pose by their trailer backstage at an ...

It’s been 50 years since Ronnie Van Zant first implored listeners to turn it up and sing songs about the Southland. "Sweet Home Alabama,” which would certainly be the signature song of any band that ...

A Lynyrd Skynyrd classic has returned to the music charts more than 50 years after it was first released. "Sweet Home Alabama" is the No. 1 song on Billboard's Rock Streaming Songs chart for the week ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1976 - Getty On an early summer's day in 1973, while waiting for the last of his bandmates to arrive for ...

The spirit of Lynyrd Skynyrd lives – in a new whiskey called Hell House, named for the “nasty little shack” where “Free Bird,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and the band’s other rock classics were forged. The ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” is a Southern rock classic, and rightly so. Alabama people aren’t surprised to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s familiar anthem playing in bars, at football games, in supermarkets, in ...

(hennemusic) Lynyrd Skynyrd are streaming live video of their iconic hit, "Sweet Home Alabama", as the latest preview to their upcoming album and DVD, "Celebrating 50 Years - Live At The Ryman" Due ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s anthemic “Sweet Home Alabama” was released 50 years ago on June 24, 1974. It was the band’s highest-charting song, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Top 100, and went on to become a ...

Through the years of 1970 and 1971, legendary singer/songwriter and rock icon Neil Young was dealing with a recurring lyrical theme of the legacy of slavery and continued racism in the American South.

“Sweet Home Alabama” figured into notable pre-fame moments of Taylor Hicks’ life. At a Hoover High school talent show, he played harmonica on a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Southern rock anthem with some ...

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