Wilkerson was found dead in his hotel room in 2001. In 2007, a 30th Anniversary issue of the record once again featured the original front cover. Pyle, who at 74 is still drumming says theres nothing better than playing Lynyrd Skynyrd music and is currently working on a tribute album. Advertisement But the band had a tragic chance when a plane crash killed almost the whole band. The total dead is five. (Photo by Tom Hill/Getty Images), trees in a rural area near McComb, Miss., Thursday night, Oct. 20, 1977 killing six people including three members of a rock group from The Lynyrd Skynyrd Band. Like Wilkeson, Powell joined the Rossington Collins Band, the Allen Collins Band and then the reunited Lynyrd Skynyrd. That left Rossington and Pyle as the only surviving members of the original band. The last time we spend with the fictional Pyle, he's getting screwed over by Skynyrd's manager on contracts and medical bills, which is a slightly weird way to end a movie. It wasn't the first, or the last, time that a set of multi-talented musicians died aboard a plane. I went into survival mode, he recalls. Former drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd dies in wreck - CBS News Tragic Details Found In Leon Wilkeson's Autopsy Report - Grunge.com Cleopatra [1] MCA, Atlantic. The one-car accident killed his passenger, girlfriend Debra Watts. In the coming weeks, Lynyrd Skynyrd would become a household name as reports of the horrific tragedydrifted across the world. [17], Rescuers had to cross a 20-foot-wide (6 m), waist-deep creek and dig through an overgrown forest, while digging out rescue vehicles that got stuck in the mud. Following the 1982 dissolution of that group, he created the Allen Collins Band, which included bassist Leon Wilkeson and keyboardist Billy Powell both of whom were also key parts of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lynyrd Skynyrd is a Southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida.Formed in 1964, the group originally included vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, bassist Larry Junstrom and drummer Bob Burns.The current lineup features Rossington, guitarist and vocalist Rickey Medlocke (from 1971 to 1972, and since 1996), lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant (since 1987), drummer . The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash - Ask.com Aerosmith almost bought the plane from the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash Earlier in 1977, there was another rock and roll band in the market for an airplane. The epic flight from Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalist forces lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles. Learn how to create your own.
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