A horrific plane crash took the lives of members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their road crew and both the pilot and co-pilot on Oct. 20, 1977, irrevocably altering the course of the Southern rock outfit, their ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd was torn apart by tragedy in the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members — and a decade later, their music brought the survivors back together. The seeds for the reunion were ...

Director Stephen Kijak’s excellent documentary If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd doesn’t claim to be an exhaustive history of the Southern rock band. The movie steers clear of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to believe that four decades have passed since one of rock’s best-known tragedies occurred. On Oct. 20, 1977, a ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd endured one of the worst tragedies in music history on Oct. 20, 1977, when a plane carrying the band and their entourage crashed in Mississippi, killing several members of the group.