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Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974.It features the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man", [2] which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974.
What's Your Name is a compilation album by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. ... "I Need You" (King, Rossington, Van Zant) – 6:53 "Swamp Music" (King, Van Zant ...
"I Need You", by Lynyrd Skynyrd from Second Helping, 1974 "I Need You", by M83 from Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2014 ... "I Need You (That Thing ...
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on the band's second album Second Helping (1974). It was written in response to Neil Young's songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama", which the band felt blamed the entire Southern United States for slavery; [5] Young is name-checked and dissed in the lyrics.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was formed under the name My Backyard in 1964, which was later changed to The Noble Five, and again to One Percent. [2] The group originally included vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, bassist Larry Junstrom and drummer Bob Burns, all of whom were students at Robert E. Lee High School. [3]
Lynyrd Skynyrd is the first box set by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It features outtakes , demos and live versions of songs from their first six albums. It was certified gold by the RIAA in November 1997.
Thyrty is a 2003 30th anniversary album by American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It consists of a two-disc set, with the final ten tracks on disc two from the post-plane crash lineup. It was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA on February 21, 2005. [1] As a limited edition, the album peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200. [2]
Keyboardist Billy Powell and bassist Leon Wilkeson worked with Christian-rock band Vision for several years before re-joining a re-formed Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987. Guitarist Randall Hall, at Collins' insistence, also joined the reconstituted Skynyrd (Collins was at this point paralyzed from an auto accident).