Gary Rossington
ABOUT GARY ROSSINGTON
Guitarist and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd , who also founded The Rossington-Collins Band. The band released 14 albums before his passing.
He and a few of his school friends formed the band The Noble Five, which later became Lynyrd Skynyrd.
In 2008 he was arrested and charged with a DUI in Georgia. In 2020, a movie about the band titled Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash was released.
He named his guitar Berneice in honor of his mother.
Ronnie Van Zant , the co-founder of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was his schoolmate.