Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the groups injected hard rock with influences from blues, soul and gospel, 'southern rock, a sound that came straight from the southern USA. The group named itself after Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher at their high school. The rootsy sound of the band and the drawling accent of singer Ronnie Van Zant said many Americans. The group scored major hits with songs like Sweet
… Home Alabama and Freebird. The advance of the group was cruelly interrupted by a plane crash in 1977 that killed three band members. From 1987, plays an incarnation of the group, with Ronnie's brother Johnny Van Zant vocals, continued under the old name. Live, the group still her man, but the CDs can not match the albums was released in the seventies.more