Rossington, Collins, Wilkeson and Powell formed the Rossington-Collins Band, which released two albums in 1980 and 1981. Deliberately avoiding comparisons with Ronnie Van Zant as well as suggestions that this band was Lynyrd Skynyrd reborn, Rossington and Collins chose a woman, Dale Krantz, as the lead vocalist.
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Skynyrd's Leon Wilkeson Dies. Leon Wilkeson, bassist of legendary southern rock act Lynyrd Skynyrd, died in his sleep Friday in his room at the Sawgrass Marriott Resort & Beach Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He was 49.
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Billy Powell, the former roadie who became a rock star for his keyboard work with the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died early Wednesday morning apparently of heart problems at his home in Orange Park, Fla., police said. He was 56.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd-SKIN-ərd) is an American rock band best known for popularizing the Southern rock genre during the 1970s. Originally formed in 1964 as My Backyard in Jacksonville, Florida, the band was also known by names such as The Noble Five and One Percent, before finally deciding on Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1969.
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In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the pre-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash.
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Leon Wilkeson. Leon Wilkeson, guitarist: born Jacksonville, Florida 2 April 1952; died Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 27 July 2001. The bassist Leon Wilkeson was a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the southern US rock group who sold 35 million albums and are most famous for Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird, defining tracks of the mid-Seventies.
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Leon Russell Wilkeson. Obituary Condolences Gallery. Leon Russell Wilkeson, 49, died on Friday, July 27, 2001. He was a founding member of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band and of strong Christian faith, associated with several local Jacksonville churches.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1952, Powell grew up in a traveling military family and went to Bishop Kenny High School in Jacksonville, Fla., where he became friends with Leon Wilkeson, future bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The reunion became permanent, although only Wilkeson, the guitarist Gary Rossington and keyboardist Billy Powell had lasted the 30-year course. Born in 1952, Leon Wilkeson grew up in the industrial sea port of Jacksonville, Florida, with most of the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's Leon Wilkeson Dies at 49. Leon Wilkeson, 49-year-old bassist for the legendary band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died Friday of natural causes, according to Judy Van Zant Jenness, widow of the Jacksonville band's founding member. We're all just finding out about this ourselves, Jenness, who was married to Ronnie Van Zant, said.
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Leon Wilkeson of Lynyrd Skynyrd died from natural causes. Leon Wilkeson of Lynyrd Skynyrd died due to natural cause.