Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and founding member, dies at 71
Gary Rossington, the last surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died.
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Gary Rossington, a co-founder and last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died Sunday at age 71. No cause of death was given.
The late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington made it big when rock ‘n’ roll was still a defining cultural force on par with today’s TikTok trends. The iconic band’s last surviving co-founder was also perhaps the last flagpole in a once-powerful part of American music: Southern rock.
