“I never have, and I never will, because only one man can sing this song on stage, and that’s my older brother Ronnie Van Zant. So you guys sing for us tonight, OK? Can you let him hear you in ...

Lacy Van Zant of Jacksonville didn't perform on stage or in the recording studio ... Mr. Van Zant was the father of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd founder Ronnie Van Zant, .38 Special founder Donnie ...

Ronnie Van Zant was one of the founding members of the great southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Van Zant wasn’t born in the sweet home of Alabama, but rather he was born and raised in ...

The songs that Ronnie Van Zant wrote, those words ... in front of hundreds of thousands of people walk off stage and let a new guy sing a song with his band? It showed me the confidence that ...

Author Mark Ribowsky writes this was the reason, before a 1975 U.K. show opening for Black Sabbath, Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant drunkenly busted a whiskey bottle over a roadie's head.

Ronnie Van Zant and friends from the west Jacksonville ... Johny Van Zant and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd perform on stage at Resorts World Arena on June 30, 2019, in Birmingham, England.