Teenagers Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, and Gary Rossington formed the band after meeting at a baseball game in Jacksonville.
While associated with Southern rock, the band was heavily influenced by British Invasion acts like The Rolling Stones , Free , and Eric Clapton , as well as blues artists like Slim Harpo. The 1977 Plane Crash skynyrd
The name "Lynyrd Skynyrd" was a tongue-in-cheek reference to Leonard Skinner , a high school gym teacher known for strictly enforcing rules against long hair. Teenagers Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, and Gary
The most defining moment in the band's history was the catastrophic crash of their chartered Convair CV-300 on . Teenagers Ronnie Van Zant
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