Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. The group has sold more than 28 million records in the U.S. and has been inducted in to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame twice. In January 2018, the band announced its farewell tour, and continue touring as of October 2019.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the band No. 95 on their list of the \”100 Greatest Artists of All Time\”. In January 2018, the band announced its farewell tour, and continue touring as of October 2019. Members are also working on their fifteenth album. The group has sold more than 28 million records in the U.S. and has been inducted in to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame twice, in 1986 and again in 2006. They have released five studio albums and one live album, and have recorded several live albums as well as two compilations of their live albums. Their career was abruptly halted by tragedy on October 20, 1977, when their chartered airplane crashed, killing Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines. In 1987, the group reformed for a reunion tour with Ronnie’s brother Johnny VanZant as lead vocalist. They continue to tour and record with co-founder Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke, who first wrote and recorded with the band from 1971 to 1972 before his return in 1996. In 2010, they released their 14th album, “The Long and Winding Road,” which is their first album since 1973. The album was released on November 25, 2010. The single “Free Bird” is the first single from the album; it was released the same day as the second single, “Sweet Home Alabama” The band has also released two live albums and two compilation albums since the 1970s, including a live album in which they played at the Woodstock festival in New York City.
The last two albums were released in 2011 and 2012, both of which were recorded in California and were released on the Atlantic Records label. They also recorded a live CD in 2012, which was released in the UK on the Warner Bros. label. In 2013, they announced a tour of the United States and Europe, which will take place in October and November. The tour will also include a stop in Australia, where the band has played several times before and has sold over 100,000 records and sold over 30,000 concert tickets in the past year. They are currently on tour in Australia and New Zealand, where they have sold over 20,000 albums and sold nearly half a million concert tickets. They will also perform in South Africa in November and December, and in South Korea in December and January, and then in Australia in January and February, 2014. In 2012, they will perform in New Zealand and South Africa, and the UK in February and March, and possibly in South America in April and May, 2014, and Australia in May and August, and later in the spring and June, 2015. The current tour dates are scheduled to begin on November 28, 2014 and end on November 30, 2014 in South Carolina.
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