Gary Rossington, Last Surviving Original Member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dies at 71

album with wife Dale Krantz-Rossington — who’s also a Skynyrd back-up singer — Rossington said that despite his health battles he’d made a decision to go on playing and die with his proverbial boots on.

Rossington was the last man standing in a band that formed during 1964 in Jacksonville, Fla., starting with bassist Larry Junstrom and drummer Bob Burns in a trio called Me, You, and Him. Signer Ronnie Van Zant, who played on a rival baseball team, jammed with the team after one of their games, playing the Rolling Stones’ “Time Is on My Side,” and the rest was history.

After working the local and regional scene, Skynyrd was discovered by Al Kooper, founder of Blood, Sweat & Tears, who signed the band to his Sounds of the South label. “We were a little bit of everything, really,” Rossington said of the burgeoning band’s approach. “We loved all the British invasion stuff and, of course, the Allman Brothers and Stax and that stuff. There were just a lot of things we stirred together.

The first phase of Skynyrd ended on Oct. 20, 1977, when a Convair CV-240 carrying the band from Greenville, S.C. to Baton Rouge, La., crashed near Gillsburg, Miss., killing three band members , assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick and both pilots. Rossington and other suffered severe injuries and put the group on hold immediately after.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Lots of typos and errors in the article. For example, Allen Collins died in 1990 not 1977. Get it together GraffonMusic and .

Too many typos in this piece - get it sorted as it is disrespectful.

R.I.P

R.I.P To Him 🙏🙏 Prayers To His Family 🙏🙏

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Jesus Christ on a cracker, this article needs a copy editor. Embarrassing.

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