More than forty years ago, on August 13, 1973, Lynyrd Skynyrd released its debut self-titled album (helpfully subtitled “Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd.”). Lynyrd Skynyrd (vowels changed “to protect the guilty”) was born. When Rossington and some of his friends and schoolmates-singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Allen Collins, drummer Bob Burns, and bassist Larry Junstrom-were searching for a new name for their fledgling rock group-they drew on memories of the incident. The teenager’s shaggy mop was a brazen violation of Robert E. In the late 1960s, in Jacksonville, Florida, a clean-cut gym teacher named Leonard Skinner sent student Gary Rossington to the principal’s office because his hair touched his collar.
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