Lynyrd Skynyrd - Did You Know?
February 21, 2018Music facts, music trivia, interesting stories and much more. Introducing the "Did You Know" page about American rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band best known for popularizing the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.
Lynyrd Skynyrd were formed in 1964 as My Backyard in Jacksonville, Florida, and were also known by the names The Noble Five and One Percent. In 1969, they finally decided on the name "Lynyrd Skynyrd."
They gained recognition all over the world for their live performances and the songs "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama," which is our did you know and fun fact of the day.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Sweet Home Alabama" talks about the band's impressions of Alabama and as a tribute to the studio musicians at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where the they recorded in the years 1970-1972.
At the beginning of the song, when Ronnie Van Zant says, "turn it up," it wasn't planned. Van Zant was actually telling an engineer to turn up the volume in his headset before starting recording the song.
It sounded good to the band members, and so they've decided to leave it as part of the song in the final mix.
At the peak of the band's success, Ronnie Van Zant as well as Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines, died in an airplane crash in 1977. This put an end to the 1970s era of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The band members who survived re-formed in 1987 for a reunion tour with lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant, who is the younger brother of Ronnie Van Zant.
The band continues to tour and record with co-founder Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant, and also Rickey Medlocke.
The band has sold 28 million records in the US, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006.
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