Why the Lynyrd Skynyrd 70s Classic Sweet Home Alabama was so Misunderstood | Professor of Rock
16,444It’s a song that virtually everyone can sing a long to, but it’s also one of the most controversial and misunderstood tracks of the Rock Era. The colorful & traumatic story of Lynyrd Skynyrd & their eternal American rock classic “Sweet Home Alabama” and why Ronnie Van Zant was one of the greatest frontmen of his time NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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We’ve lost many beloved artists to fatal plane crashes since the surge of commercial aviation in the 40s. In 1944, the biggest star of the Big Band Era- Glen Miller, was a passenger on an aircraft bound for Paris from London that mysteriously disappeared in dense fog over the English Channel- never to be seen again.
One of the saddest days in the Rock Era was the ’the day the music died’ on February 3rd, 1959, when Richie Valens, the Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly were killed in the crash of a private charter near Clear Lake, Iowa. In ’63 we lost Patsy Cline. In ’64 Jim Reeves, Otis Redding and the Bar-kays were on the same aircraft that went down in ’67.Jim Croce in ’73, Randy Rhoads in ’82, Ricky Nelson in ’85, Stevie Ray Vaughn in ’89, John Denver in ’97, and Aaliyah in 2001.
In 1977, three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed, along with 3 others in a plane crash over a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Miraculously, 20 of the 26 passengers survived the crash, and some were able to give a detailed account of what happened on that disastrous flight.
Skynyrd guitarist and co-founder Gary Rossington was knocked unconscious, but lived to tell of the horror he and the other passengers experienced. Front man Ronnie Van Sant, and the band’s primary lyricist, like many of the occupants, was not wearing a seat belt, and was one of the dead bodies found in the wreckage, along with guitarist Steve Gaines, and Steve’s sister- backup singer Cassie Gaines. The biography of Lynyrd Skynyrd is laced with tragedy. It is also one of the most colorful, controversial, and regenerative in Rock history.
Original drummer Bob Burns suggested the name Leonard Skinnerd, which was partly a spin on the “Leonard Skinner” character in the novelty song “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” by Allan Sherman that soared to #2 in 1963, but mainly meant as a goof on another Leonard Skinner who was a militantly strict P.E. teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville. Gary Rossington had frequent run-ins with Mr. Skinner, who disciplined the young musician because of his long hair, which violated school policy. By 1970, the band selected a unique spelling of the first and last name, and officially became Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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