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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780767910279
The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s
legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble
boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame
to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s
rise again from the ashes.
In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van
Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to
play covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and the
country and blues-rock music they had grown to love. Naming their
band after Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher at Robert E. Lee Senior
High School who constantly badgered the long-haired aspiring
musicians to get haircuts, they were soon playing gigs at parties,
and bars throughout the South. During the next decade Lynyrd
Skynyrd grew into the most critically acclaimed and commercially
successful of the rock bands to emerge from the South since the
Allman Brothers. Their hits “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Alabama”
became classics. Then, at the height of its popularlity in 1977,
the band was struck with tragedy –a plane crash that killed Ronnie
Van Zant and two other band members.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock is an
intimate chronicle of the band from its earliest days through the
plane crash and its aftermath, to its rebirth and current status as
an enduring cult favorite. From his behind-the-scenes perspective
as Ronnie Van Zant’s lifelong friend and frequent member of the
band’s entourage who was also aboard the plane on that fateful
flight, Gene Odom reveals the unique synthesis of blues/country
rock and songwriting talent, relentless drive, rebellious Southern
swagger and down-to-earth sensibility that brought the band
together and made it a defining and hugely popular Southern rock
band — as well as the destructive forces that tore it apart.
Illustrated throughout with rare photos, Odom traces the band’s
rise to fame and shares personal stories that bring to life the
band’s journey.
For the fans who have purchased a cumulative 35 million copies of
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s albums and continue to pack concerts today, Lynyrd
Skynyrd is a celebration of an immortal American band.
From the Hardcover edition.
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
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