Family crisis forced Lynyrd Skynyrd to cancel tour dates as frontman Johnny Van Zant supports daughter’s health battle.

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Dolly Parton has revealed that Ronnie Van Zant’s widow gave her permission to use the late Lynyrd Skynyrd singer’s voice on her new cover of the southern rock band’s classic song Free Bird.

Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant has revealed that doctors discovered a mass on his youngest daughter's brain this week and is asking fans to "say a prayer" for her. The legendary rock band ...

On 1973, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned, and special ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Street Survivors’ was a huge hit, but it was also released just days before a horrific air crash that changed everything.

Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s frontman Johnny Van ...

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Van Zant has been at the helm of Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1987, stepping in nearly 10 years after the tragic loss of his brother, Ronnie Van Zant, in a plane crash. The last original surviving ...

On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6% in value (its largest daily percentage loss ever), to close at 1,738.74 ...

But Skynyrd -- at least the original band, which released five albums before a plane crash in 1977 claimed the lives of singer Ronnie Van Zant and others – were smarter and sharper than most of ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd originally formed in 1964 in Jacksonville, Fla., under the name My Backyard with vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, bass player Larry Junstrom ...