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it is written Lynyrd Skynyrd and not all the members are alive, three members died in a plane crash in 1977. Their names were Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines. The band had reunited since 1987 with the survivors of the crash and Ronnie's son Johnny. Also, Allen Collins did not play because of a car accident which has made him paralyzed. Instead His former band mate in Allen Collins Band, Randall Hall, played for him. In 1990 Collins died from pneumonia. Leon Russell Wilkeson died in July 2001 from Lung and Liver Disease. William Norris "Billy" Powell died in January 2009, probably from a heart attack. Only three members remain: Ed King, Thomas Delmer "Artimus" Pyle, and Gary Robert Rossington.

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