Billy Powell — 1952 – 2009 — R.I.P.
Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell passed away on Wednesday of apparent heart problems in his Orange Park, Florida home. He was 56. Powell’s distinctive piano is best remembered on the song “Free Bird.” I’ve seen Lynyrd Skynyrd twice in my lifetime. First when I was a kid in 1976 (my first ever rock concert) in Memphis, Tennessee (November 26, 1976, just under a year before the infamous plane crash in Mississippi) and during their first reunion tour in 1987 in Tallahassee, Florida. In both concerts as is the custom at all Skynyrd concerts, “Free Bird” is the big finale song. During the 1987 performance in Tallahassee, “Free Bird” was performed as a instrumental but the audience, myself included, sung the lyrics in honor of late frontman Ronnie Van Zant. Billy Powell’s piano solo in both instances was memorable; the second being more memorable because as they put the spotlight on him playing a white grand piano a spotlight illuminated a brass statue of an eagle with wings spread as in flight. I think I’ll listen to the live version of “Free Bird” in honor of Billy Powell.
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