Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd are celebrating their historic 1976 performance with the multi-format release of
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live At Knebworth ‘76 available on DVD+CD, Blu-ray+CD, limited edition 2LP+DVD, and digital video on April 9.
Originally only available on the 1996 film
Freebird..The Movie, this latest installment gives fans the opportunity to enjoy the 1976 performance in its entirety. Get the latest rock news straight to your inbox!
The band performed at the day-long festival with the likes of Todd Rundgren’s Utopia and
The Rolling Stones, playing to a crowd of over 150,000 people, and effectively stealing the show to create a historic moment for Southern Rock.
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Says Byrne: “On February 13 (Valentine’s Day Eve), some musician friends of mine, and many I’ve never met, are doing a virtual concert to raise money for meals for New Mexico’s hardest hit. New Mexico ranks almost at the bottom in poverty (49th) in the US and the Navajo and other Native American lands have long been short of basic health, jobs and education services- so the impact of Covid on these folks has been devastating.
“How in the world are they going to fit all these folks into one show? We’ll see.
Mutual appreciation
“Now for some folks my connection to these musicians might seem a little odd – we don’t exactly make the same kind of music – but I sense there exists some mutual appreciation – it’s certainly there from my end. I met Terry Allen, the artist and musician who helped put this together, in the mid eighties when I was making the
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In addition to the cover, Yungblud also showed off his vocal abilities with impressive performances of “Mars” and “Cotton Candy” – both of which appear on his best-selling sophomore album.
Most recently, the artist released a dramatic music video for his song “Acting Like That,” featuring his frequent collaborators and friends, Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker. The visual finds all three rockers in the midst of a zombie invasion.
While the video was filmed separately in the artists’ respective homes of Los Angeles and London, the energy of the video remains impeccably cohesive. “This song is a direct representation of what happens when me, MGK, and Travis get in a room together, an accumulation of mad electricity and energy,” Yungblud explained in an earlier statement. “We couldn’t be together right now so instead of superimposing one of us in a weird green screen video we did zombie apocalypse.”