Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle will co-write and produce a biopic about his life with the Southern rock band. The film, tentatively titled Free Bird, also focuses on one of the music’s ...
Billy Powell, the longtime keyboard player for Lynyrd Skynyrd who survived the 1977 plane crash that decimated the band, died Wednesday of a suspected heart attack at his home in Orange Park, Fla. He ...
The latter song turned into something rock and roll folklore. During one of their shows at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in 1976, an audience member called out “Free Bird” when lead singer Ronnie Van ...