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    • Jan 29, 1986
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Allen Collins has an alcohol-related car accident in Jacksonville, Florida, killing his girlfriend and paralyzing him below the neck. He pleads no contest to manslaughter charges
    Jul 21, 1987
    Two Lynyrd Skynyrd albums featuring "Sweet Home Alabama" get multi-platinum certification from the RIAA. "Gold & Platinum" goes triple-platinum, while "Second Helping" hits both platinum and double-platinum
    Sep 6, 1987
    Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam XIII at Nashville's Starwood Amphitheatre, with Lynyrd Skynyrd, William Lee Golden, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Chapman and rock band Great White. It marks Johnny Van Zant's first appearance with Skynyrd
    Oct 14, 1987
    Lynyrd Skynyrd kicks off a tribute tour--its first since the plane crash that shook the band 10 years earlier--at the Omni in Atlanta. The band, best known for "Sweet Home Alabama," continues touring thereafter
    Jan 23, 1990
    Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins dies from respiratory failure at Jacksonville's Memorial Medical Center. The band's "Sweet Home Alabama" ranks among country's greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Mar 27, 1991
    MCA releases Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Skynyrd's Innyrds/Their Greatest Hits." "Sweet Home Alabama" is ranked in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number" among country's all-time greatest singles
    Sep 26, 1991
    Following a Lynyrd Skynyrd show in Nashville, vocalist Johnny Van Zant breaks his back on the way down a staircase. Four years later, he's on the country charts with the Van Zant hit "Help Somebody"
    Nov 12, 1991
    MCA releases the three-CD box set "Lynyrd Skynyrd." It includes "Sweet Home Alabama," considered one of the 500 greatest country singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Dec 22, 1991
    The movie "Rush" appears in theaters, with Gregg Allman playing a drug kingpin. On the soundtrack: Patsy Cline's "I Fall To Pieces," Freddy Fender's "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" and "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights," and music by Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton and The Charlie Daniels Band
    Mar 14, 1992
    Willie Nelson's Farm Aid V draws about 40,000 fans in Irving, Texas, with Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Walsh, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ricky Van Shelton, The Kentucky HeadHunters, Lorrie Morgan, Hal Ketchum and Paul Simon
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