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  • Oct 14, 2012
    Sugarland is inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame along with .38 Special and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington during a ceremony at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta
    Feb 15, 2013
    Lynyrd Skynyrd cancels a pair of concerts in Biloxi, Mississippi, as guitarist Gary Rossington is hospitalized in Wyoming with an abdominal infection
    Oct 8, 2015
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington suffers a heart attack. He co-wrote "Sweet Home Alabama," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book, "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jul 21, 2016
    Lynyrd Skynyrd cancels two weeks of concerts as guitarist Gary Rossington recovers from heart surgery. He co-wrote the 1974 Southern rock hit "Sweet Home Alabama," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jul 31, 2019
    "Sweet Home Alabama" songwriter Gary Rossington has surgery to repair a leaky heart valve. As a result, Lynyrd Skynyrd postpones two concerts on its farewell tour
    Jul 23, 2021
    Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington has emergency heart surgery. He played on the band's classic "Sweet Home Alabama," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Mar 5, 2023
    Guitarist Gary Rossington dies. The last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, he was a writer on "Sweet Home Alabama," ranked among country's all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"

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