THE BEAT GOES ON
LYNYRD SKYNYRD 1970-1977 It was $l00,000 wedding, Supposed to be held the other day, And with all the invitations sent The young bride went away. * —From “3100,000 Wedding”, by Gram Parsons Hearing the news of Ronnie Van Zant’s death in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd band members Steve and Cassie Gaines, a friend of mine remarked: “Those who live by the sword die by the sword.”
THE BEAT GOES ON
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LYNYRD SKYNYRD
1970-1977
It was $l00,000 wedding,
Supposed to be held the other day,
And with all the invitations sent The young bride went away. *
—From “3100,000 Wedding”, by Gram Parsons
Hearing the news of Ronnie Van Zant’s death in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd band members Steve and Cassie Gaines, a friend of mine remarked: “Those who live by the sword die by the sword.” The remark was coarse but fitting. The smell of death—be it snub-nosed Russian roulette, a smorgasbord of needles and pins, or a battery of gruesome car and plane crashes—has surrounded rock V roll from the beginning.