I picked up Street Survivors on the 20th - newly released - Steve Gaines wreathed in flames...
Friday morning 1977 - I was woken by my sister with the imortal lines... "Kenneth, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead..." at the time, they were my favourite band... saw them twice, for Gimme Back and in support of the live double (On The British Road) tour...
Their deaths were literally caused by a pilot who thought he could save fuel and not load up as much - a slight miscalculation lead to the deaths of Cassie, Steve, Dean, Ronnie and the pilots... the years took most of the rest...
RIP