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“Lots of people hated it at first. Fans wanted them to do Kill ’Em All 20 per cent faster”: how Metallica defied the haters and changed the course of metal with Ride The Lightning

Metallica’s second album Ride The Lightning turns 40 on July 27 – this is how they made one of metal’s greatest records

Metal Hammer

“I still have my uniform on, and I said, ‘I’ve been at work all day and I cut off all my hair.’ Gary said, ‘Bring your guitar. I’ll see you at six’”: Steve Morse quit music to become an airline pilot – until Lynyrd Skynyrd persuaded him to return

Steve Morse has opened up about his stint away from the music industry, and explained how playing on a Lynyrd Skynyrd live album reignited his passion for playing guitar professionally

Guitar World

“That amp quite literally changed my life”: Damon Johnson explains why finding the right amp kickstarted his career

Back in 1990, Johnson bought a pricey but career-changing amp that he says “was worth every penny”

Guitar World

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"It's lovely to wake up in the morning and be able to remember why you got punched in the head the night before": Pete Agnew and the continuation of Nazareth

With Dan McCafferty gone and their glory days behind them, Nazareth's last surviving original member, Pete Agnew, cannot imagine life without the band

Louder

How to play Sweet Home Alabama on guitar

Learn one of the most iconic guitar intros of all time from this Lynyrd Skynyrd classic

Guitar World

“Thin Lizzy prepared me for Skynyrd. They said, ‘You need to learn these songs note for note.’ I said, ‘I wouldn’t dream of doing it any other way’”: Damon Johnson on having one of rock’s most enviable resumés – and why Eddie Van Halen gifted him a guitar

From touring with Van Halen, to finding his own niche as a blood-and-guts player with some of rock’s biggest names

Guitar World

“I played note-for-note. Those albums are the soundtrack to people's lives. I wanted to hear them how it was supposed to be”: Damon Johnson on how he came to play with Thin Lizzy and Lynyrd Skynyrd – and his identical approach for both gigs

Johnson has been tasked with filling roles held by a string of iconic guitarists – and he's been determined to do the source material justice every time

Guitar World

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Tom Wills Delivers Final Newscast in Jacksonville Today

Has interviewed several presidents, and went into the woods to investigate Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash

Broadcasting & Cable

Bird-brained recruit misfires rear gun at Fort Scratchley, hits president, misses his brother

Meet the Wing Commander; Fort Scratchley's newest recruit.

Newcastle Herald

"Roy Thomas Baker would organise food fights and set fire to the mixing desk": How Bill Nelson built up then broke up Be-Bop Deluxe

Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe

Louder

"Jimi Hendrix lived a block from me in New York. We jammed together a lot": Al Kooper's stories of the Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh and more

He freaked out Lynyrd Skynyrd, produced The Tubes and more, hung out at Keith Moon’s house and had George Harrison hang out at his. He's the legendary Al Kooper

Louder

“If the mini-humbucker had remained exclusive to Epiphone, it may have been a mere footnote. It developed a following because they ended up in Gibson guitars”: The mini-humbucker’s surprising history – and why it deserves more love

Often passed over in conversations about the greatest electric guitar pickups, the mini-humbucker has a unique tone of its own, its story inextricably linked to Epiphone and Gibson

Guitar World

"We'd started playing small dance halls for a few hundred people, now suddenly we were opening for the Stones and The Who": A celebration of the life and music of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

Gary Rossington was the last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd's founding lineup: He died a year ago

Louder

The 10 greatest slide guitar moments in rock

From Johnny Winter to Led Zeppelin, here’s how a hit of slide guitar can lift a song to the heavens

Louder

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"I want to give back to my native community": Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke releases solo single in support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Money raised by Never Run Out Of Road will be donated to the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, which works to end the trafficking of Native American women

Louder

“To survive in this game, we had to get away from the 10-minute guitar solos”: the story of .38 Special, Blackfoot and the Southern Rock/AOR crossover

In the late 70s and early 80s, many of Southern Rock’s finest swapped twanging guitars for melodic rock magnificence

Louder

The man who holds the world record for most drumstick hits in one minute has now played the guitar solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird on a stand-up kit

This is what happens when people have too much time on their hands, but in a good way

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14 of the best Grand Theft Auto radio songs to test your headphones or hi-fi system

Radio stations are integral to immersing you into the whacky world of GTA. Here are some of the best tracks to be found across the virtual airwaves.

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"These are hard-livin', whiskey-drinkin', gun-totin' Southerners who eat grits for breakfast, fried beans for lunch, and an entire raw buffalo for their dinner": Flirtin' With Disaster by Molly Hatchet

The double-platinum Flirtin' With Disaster was the second album from the triple-guitar southern rock band from Jacksonville who weren't Lynyrd Skynyrd

Metal Hammer

"People that mostly know Skynyrd from Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama: there's this heavier, less mainstream side to them." Metallica's Lars Ulrich reveals the five Lynyrd Skynyrd deep cuts that everyone needs to hear

Metallica's drummer has been digging deep into Lynyrd Skynyrd's back catalogue. Do you know these lesser celebrated songs?

Louder

“At points it sounds more like Camel than Lynyrd Skynyrd”: The Marshall Tucker Band’s prog energy

Riding the wave of Southern rock, their 1973 debut album contained a distinctly different dimension

Louder

Kid Rock: My stories about Metallica, Axl Rose, Pamela Anderson and more

He's bad karma for James Hetfield, was in a sex video shot by Scott Stapp, and watched Jerry Lee Lewis show Keith Richards who’s boss. He's Kid Rock, and these are his stories

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32 Great Songs Featured In Almost Famous

Almost Famous is jam packed with carefully chosen classic rock tracks and other favorites.

Louder

“As many times as I've heard this song this is the first time it made me tear up”: Listen to Dolly Parton's epic 10 minute 50 seconds version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, featuring Ronnie Van Zant and one of Gary Rossington's final guitar solos

Rockstar is finally here, and Dolly Parton has out-done herself with her epic album-closing cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird

Louder

“Ronnie Van Zant’s widow wouldn’t allow Lynyrd Skynyrd to use his voice, but she said: ‘I’ll do it for Dolly’”: how Dolly Parton ended up covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird on her new album

Country star Dolly Parton cover of Free Bird also features one of the last appearances by late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

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