Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gary Rossington interview: The triumph and tragedy of Lynyrd Skynyrd

By Paul Elliott published 21 May 26

He started the band and survived its darkest hour, never losing faith in music’s healing power. If anyone represented the soul of Lynyrd Skynyrd, it was their late guitarist, Gary Rossington

How Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the accidental classic that lifted them to immortality – and defined a genre

By Dave Everley published 9 May 26

Lynyrd Synyrd’s Free Bird was the monster hit that the band themselves didn’t believe in

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, and the truth about rock's most misreported beef

By Classic Rock Magazine published 16 April 26

The story of three songs that started fifty years of fake news

The genre that refuses to die: A history Of Southern rock In 40 songs

By Polly Glass, Jerry Ewing, Malcolm Dome, Philip Wilding, Dave Ling published 12 April 26

From the late 60s until today, here are 40 songs that show why Southern rock continues to thrive

The story of Blackfoot, the southern rock legends who took ten years to become an overnight success

By Ken McIntyre published 26 March 26

A tale of terrifying underachievement

The southern rock legend who quit Lynyrd Skynyrd before they became famous and then rejoined 25 years later

By Paul Rees published 7 February 26

Rickey Medlocke has been involved in not one but two iconic Southern Rock bands

Born in a dream, the solos in Sweet Home Alabama were out of key, but superstition kept them in

By Rob Hughes published 19 January 26

Lynyrd Skynyrd's down-home anthem was a retort to Neil Young's Southern Man, but decades on it's soundtracked everything from KFC to video games