“It has already been publicly exhibited in an academic setting as genuine”: Footage emerges of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Allen Collins learning to play guitar again after the 1977 plane crash that killed three of his bandmates

Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd recovering after a 1977 plane crash, and performing live in 1976.

Previously unseen footage of Allen Collins playing guitar in the wake of the most tragic moment in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s history has emerged online – and it shows what he had to go through to be able to play again.

In 1977, three members of the band were killed when their plane, which had been boarded after a show at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, crashed on the way to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.