Lynyrd Skynyrd’s iconic rock anthem will live on forever, if only so the joke of yelling to play “Free Bird” at random artists and musicians can continue for eternity. The song, which came out in 1973 ...

"Free Bird" is the song that just won't fade away. It's 50-some years old and still popular in TV, movies and commercials.

The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd are not ruling out recording new music more than a decade after their last studio album. In a June 2025 interview with Classic Rock, lead singer Johnny Van Zant revealed ...

Nearly six decades the sprawling anthem stands atop American rock lore as the definitive classic rock song.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has “about 30 songs” written with late guitarist Gary Rossington that the band still hopes to record and release. In a recent conversation with French outlet Riff X, singer Johnny Van ...

Despite writing some of their generation’s biggest hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd never had a song reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Instead, the band that popularized southern rock plateaued at No. 8 after ...

“The career-spanning 50 tracks featured on FYFTY represent the best of the best music the band has offered up to its loyal, worldwide fanbase from the very beginning,” as described in a press release.

The song was released in 1972.

When the band first started playing live in their hometown of Jacksonville, Florida in the late ’60s, they called themselves My Backyard. Then they were known as The Noble Five and The One Percent ...