Lynyrd Skynyrd had a Good Teacher

Lynyrd Skynyrd have released a lyric video for Good Teacher, taken from recent album Last Of A Dyin’ Breed. View it below.


The band – who played an exclusive 30-minute set to invited guests at Classic Rock’s eighth annual Roll Of Honour awards night last month – got their name from a teacher called Leonard Skinner.

But given the lyrics in the song: “He showed me the ropes, good whisky and smoke, and how to tell a dirty joke” they’re probably not talking about Mr Skinner.

source: classicrockmagazine.com

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Packed with interviews and exclusive unseen pictures of awards winners, the free Awards magazine also includes a video intro from host Duff McKagan, behind the scenes video and a gallery of pictures.

It features interviews with ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, Nikki Sixx, The Damned (whose interview is hilariously interrupted by Lemmy), Rival Sons (with fan Vic Reeves), Family, Ginger, Status Quo, Russ Ballard and Anthrax.

If that wasn’t enough, Manic Street Preacher James Dean Bradfield explains why he loves Rush, Bruce Dickinson pays tribute to Jon Lord, Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera is interviewed with Rick Wakeman, and promoter John Giddings pays tribute to his old mentor, Genesis/Floyd manager Tony Smith.

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source: classicrockmagazine.com

Yee-haw! Classic Rock to launch Lynyrd Skynyrd Fanpack

Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced that their new album Last Of A Dyin’ Breed will be released with an exclusive Classic Rock Fanpack.

The album is out on August 28 in an exclusive Classic Rock Fanpack form – providing a unique collectable package containing the studio album with bonus tracks, alongside a specially created magazine with exclusive behind-the-scenes content put together by Classic Rock.

The Fanpack format will also come with free gifts including a pin badge and artwork poster and will be available to buy via more than 2,000 retail outlets on newsstands nationally as well as the traditional high street and online music retailers.

The standard physical release of the Skynyrd album in the UK will follow on September 17.

Pre-order your copy here!

source: classicrockmagazine.com

The Real Lynyrd Skynyrd Dies

The real Lynyrd Skynyrd Leonard Skinner- a basketball coach at Robert E. Lee High School in the mid-60s who influenced and inspired the name of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died Monday in Florida at the age of 77, his daughter Susie Moore said.

He was fighting with Alzheimer’s disease and died in his sleep Monday Morning at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor in Jacksonville, where he had been living for a year.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd will unite with A&E host Lynn Hoffman and will be interviewed and will do a live performance on A&E Private Sessions this Sunday, August 1, 2010.

Lynyrd Skynyrd will talk about their hardships and triumphs, awful past and how they settled to reform the band, and perform some of their biggest hits and new songs off their recently released album "Gods & Guns" which includes God & Guns and Still Unbroken plus classic hit song Sweet Home Alabama.