Free Bird

"Free Bird" is a song by American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Since its release on their 1973 debut album, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd, it has become the band's signature song and a staple of rock radio. It has also developed into a popular culture clich? over the years, which is the shouting of a request to hear the song by audience members at almost any concert, regardless of the performer or style of music.

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Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins began writing the music for "Free Bird" in 1970. The first version of the song was completed two years later when songwriter and vocalist Ronnie Van Zant wrote lyrics about a man who explains to his girlfriend why he is unable to settle down and become committed to her. The band recorded a demo version in 1972, before the now-famous triple guitar instrumental was added as the last section of the song for the final 1973 studio version.

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Southern rock: Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and retains a fan base to the present....

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American Southern rock band, described by All Music Guide's Stephen Thomas Erlewine as "the definitive Southern rock band, fusing the overdriven power of blues-rock with a rebellious, Southern image and a hard rock swagger." http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:51u67u...

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