Lynyrd Skynyrd has premiered a new animated video for the classic 1974 song “Sweet Home Alabama” to coincide with today’s release of Fyfty, a four-CD compilation celebrating the 50th anniversary of ...

It’s been 50 years since Ronnie Van Zant first implored listeners to turn it up and sing songs about the Southland. "Sweet Home Alabama,” which would certainly be the signature song of any band that ...

Abba's "Waterloo" was released in March 1974 as the first single off their second album of the same name. The song won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 for Sweden, and put Abba on the map. It was ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” is a Southern rock classic, and rightly so. Alabama people aren’t surprised to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s familiar anthem playing in bars, at football games, in supermarkets, in ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s anthemic “Sweet Home Alabama” was released 50 years ago on June 24, 1974. It was the band’s highest-charting song, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Top 100, and went on to become a ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” figured into notable pre-fame moments of Taylor Hicks’ life. At a Hoover High school talent show, he played harmonica on a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Southern rock anthem with some ...

On an early summer’s day in 1973, while waiting for the last of his bandmates to arrive for rehearsal, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington unfurled a speculative riff on a sunburst Les Paul.

Some classic rock songs were controversial before they were completed. For example, a famous backup singer for The Rolling Stones initially refused to work on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.” ...

The artists took the stage in Nashville on June 27, 2015, for a set that included Gilbert's “Bottoms Up,” “Country Must Be Country Wide” and “Kick It in the Sticks,” as well as Skynyrd's “Simple Man," ...