Good morning anons!
I wake up each morning after only a little bit of sleep, still exhausted, but with a growing sense of joy in my heart!
Thank you all!
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Ronnie Van Zant on Free Bird:
"Birds are the freest thing of all, and freedom was what this country was all about."
On October 20, 1977, a plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ran out of fuel outside Gillsburg, Mississippi. The passengers had been informed about potential problems with the Convair CV-240 and were told to brace for a crash. Van Zant died on impact from head injuries suffered after the aircraft struck a tree. Bandmates Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, along with assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray, were also killed. The rest of the band was seriously injured. Van Zant was 29 years old.