Lynyrd Skynyrd

Southern-Rock band formed in 1964 in Jacksonville, Florida USA, by high school friends lead singer Ronnie VanZant , guitarists Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, bass player Leon Wilkeson and drummer Bob Burns. They began playing in the Southern States under various names releasing a single in fall '60s, the quintet finally christened the band Lynyrd Skynyrd and recorded a demo-album plus the debut single, "I've Been Your Fool". The group issued via MCA their debut full-length LP , "Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd", in 1973 enlisting a new lineup that included the third guitarist, Ed King and Billy Powell on piano+keyboards, the single "Free Bird" with its superb three-guitar finale became a national radio hit but entered the Pop Singles chart two years later. Pete Townshend invited the group to open for The Who on their Quadrophenia tour, soon after Lynyrd Skynyrd returned to the studio and recorded their biggest hit single "Sweet Home Alabama" which peaked at #8 in U.S. Pop Singles chart and pushed "Second Helping" into the top 20 of The Pop Albums chart, which subsequently went multi-platinum. Before the year's end the new drummer Artimus Pyle replaced Burns and King left the group shortly afterward; "Nuthin' Fancy" came out in 1975 and climbed the Pop Albums chart ranking into the top 10, its single "Saturday Night Special" peaked at #27 in the national chart. 1976's "Gimme Back My Bullets" failed to enter the top 10 and the single "Double Trouble" scored a modest #80 in the U.S. Pop chart; the group's line-up was enlarged that same year by arrival of the guitar player Steve Gaines and a trio of female backup singers, in Atlanta they recorded the double-live set "One More From The Road" that ranked in the top 10 of The Pop Albums chart selling one million copies. Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded their fifth studio album, "Street Survivors", in October of 1977 and then tragedy struck. A plane crash took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, the album reached the #5 in U.S. chart and the single "What's Your Name" peaked at #13 in Pop chart, followed by "You Got That Right" and "That Smell". The next year saw the release of "Skynyrd's First And...Last" which consists of group's earliest recordings, it reached the #15 on The Pop Albums chart. After the crash the band broke up, in 1980 Rossington and Collins formed a new band which featured other ex-Skynyrd members but two years later they decided to go their separate ways. In 1986, Allen Collins, was involved in a car accident which killed his girlfriend and left him paralyzed; a year later the name Lynyrd Skynyrd was revived for a tour featuring Rossington, Powell, Pyle, Wilkeson and King, with Ronnie's brother Johnny Van Zant on vocals and Randell Hall on guitar; "Legend" a compilation of group's '70s songs, was issued in October '87 and generated "Truck Drivin' Man" that peaked at #12 on Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In January of 1990, Allen Collins died from pneumonia, the next year the re-assembled Lynyrd Skynyrd began recording a new material and issued "Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991", it spawned "Keeping The Faith" and "Smokestack Lightning" which peaked at #10 and #2 respectively on The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; two years later the single "Good Lovin's Hard To Find" reached the top 10 in the same chart, it was taken from the album "The Last Rebel". Followed in 1997 "Twenty" and its Mainstream Rock hit "Travelin' Man", two years later appeared "Edge Of Forever", like its three predecessor albums, was a modest success on The Billboard Top 200 chart, this album generated the top 20 Active Rock hit "Workin'". Another tragedy struck when the founder member Leon Wilkeson was found dead on July 27, 2001 in a hotel room in Florida. Two years later Lynyrd Skynyrd returned with "Vicious Cycle", which peaked at #30 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.
Album List :
Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
(1973)
1. I Ain't The One
2. Tuesday's Gone
3. Gimme Three Steps
4. Simple Man
5. Things Goin' On
6. Mississippi Kid
7. Poison Whiskey
8. Freebird
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Second Helping
(1974)
1. Sweet Home Alabama
2. I Need You
3. Don't Ask Me No Questions
4. Workin' For MCA
5. The Ballad Of Curtis Loew
6. Swamp Music
7. The Needle And The Spoon
8. Call Me The Breeze
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Nuthin' Fancy
(1975)
1. Saturday Night Special
2. Cheatin' Woman
3. Railroad Song
4. I'm A Country Boy
5. On The Hunt
6. Am I Losin'?
7. Made In The Shade
8. Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
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Gimme Back My Bullets
(1976)
1. Gimme Back My Bullets
2. Every Mother's Son
3. Trust
4. I Got The Same Old Blues
5. Double Trouble
6. Roll Gypsy Roll
7. Searchin'
8. Cry For The Bad Man

9. All I Can Do Is Write About It

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Street Survivors
(1977)
1. What's Your Name
2. That Smell
3. One More Time
4. I Know A Little
5. You Got That Right
6. I Never Dreamed
7. Honky Tonk Night Time Man
8. Ain't No Good Life
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Skynyrd's First And...Last
(1978)
1. Down South Jukin'
2. Preacher's Daughter
3. White Dove
4. Was I Right Or Wrong
5. Lend A Helpin' Hand
6. Wino
7. Comin' Home
8. Seasons
9. Things Goin' On
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The Last Rebel
(1993)
1. Good Lovin's Hard To Find
2. One Thing
3. Can't Take That Away
4. Best Things In Life
5. The Last Rebel
6. Outta Hell In My Dodge
7. Kiss Your Freedom Goodbye
8. South Of Heaven
9. Love Don't Always Come Easy
10. Born To Run
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Twenty
(1997)
1. We Ain't Much Different
2. Bring It On
3. Voodoo Lake
4. Home Is Where The Heart Is
5. Travelin' Man
6. Talked Myself Right Into It
7. Never Too Late
8. O.R.R.
9. Blame It On A Sad Song
10. Berneice
11. None Of Us Are Free
12. How Soon We Forget
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Edge Of Forever
(1999)
1. Workin'
2. Full Moon Night
3. Preacher Man
4. Mean Streets
5. Tomorrow's Goodbye
6. Edge Of Forever
7. Gone Fishin'
8. Through It All
9. Money Back Guarantee
10. G.W.T.G.G.
11. Rough Around The Edges
12. FLA
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Vicious Cycle
(2003)
1. That's How I Like It
2. Pick 'Em Up
3. Dead Man Walkin'
4. The Way
5. Red, White & Blue
6. Sweet Mama
7. All Funked Up
8. Heaven Or Hell
9. Mad Hatter
10. Rockin' Little Town
11. Crawl
12. Jake
13. Life's Lessons
14. Lucky Man
15. Gimme Back My Bullets
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