Copyright © 2015 by Mark Ribowsky

All rights reserved

First edition

Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

814 North Franklin Street

Chicago, Illinois 60610

ISBN 978-1-56976-146-5

Interior design: Jonathan Hahn

Cover design: Marc Whitaker / MTWdesign.net

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ribowsky, Mark.

Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars : the fast life and sudden death of Lynyrd Skynyrd / by Mark Ribowsky. — First edition.

     pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-56976-146-5 (cloth)

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd (Musical group) 2. Rock musicians—United States—Biography. I. Title.

ML421.L96R43 2015

782.42166092’2—dc23

[B]

2014037743

Printed in the United States of America

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