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Last Updated: 12/20/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 49
Sign: Leo

City: Wilmington
State: North Carolina
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/27/2008
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 

Category: Music


Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell, who played on such hits as "Sweet Home Alabama" and survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, died Wednesday. He was 56. Powell called 911 in this Jacksonville suburb saying he was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead about an hour later, Orange Park Police Lt. Mark Cornett said. Powell, who had a history of heart problems, missed a Tuesday appointment with his doctor for a cardiac evaluation, and a heart attack is suspected as the cause of death. The
Jacksonville-based band was formed in 1966 by a group of high school
students — famously, it took its name from a physical education teacher
they disliked, Leonard Skinner. Powell joined the group in 1970 and
became its keyboardist in 1972, the year before they released their
first album, "Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd." It became one of the South's most popular rock groups, and gained national fame with such hits as "Free Bird," "What's Your Name" and especially "Sweet Home Alabama," which reached the top 10 on the charts in 1974. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.




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