Lynyrd Skynyrd
“What song is it choo wanna hear?”
“I've been working on the idea for this book for a while. It's odd that some of the most established book companies looked down their collective noses at them as 'white trash’', something that is just plainly stupid. When I was a teenager they were definitely dangerous, not to be messed with which made them exciting plus they toured the UK a lot and appealed to the working class. I always refer back to Pete Makowski's piece, touring with them on the West Coast in SOUNDS, one the greatest written testaments to the band - so I asked Geoff Barton to write an introduction as he was very much around at the time. I spend so much time in America and each time you get in a car and put on classic rock radio what do you hear? "Free Bird" or "Sweet Home Alabama". "Free Bird" has almost become an American national anthem.I spoke to my friend Ken Levington (band manager) who said Gary Rossington would like to sign it - I sent Gary the bookplates and he died. I was in South America at the time and then a couple of weeks later I was back in Los Angeles and waiting for me at the Sunset Marquis Hotel was a box returned from Atlanta. I nearly threw it away, then thought I'd keep a bookplate as a memento, I opened the package and to my surprise, Gary had signed every plate a couple of days before he died. So I thought it was a nice message from the "Free Bird"s wherever they all are now. Play their music, it's a part of American History. The '70's in all its musical glory and then look at the photos... you won't be disappointed” ROSS HALFIN - MAY 2023
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