LYNYRD SKYNYRD performs FREE BIRD on Austin City Limits in 1999

PEOPLE ON THE STREET INTVS ON WHY THEY ARE MISSING THE OPENING NIGHT OF THE TELEVISED REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 00:00:10 Some people say that they'd rather watch a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert, others say they'd rather go to the movies. Some comment on how boring the convention will be. 00:07:00 Good shots of money and tickets exchanging hands at a movie theater. CI: POLITICS: CONVENTION, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL, 1988 (ABOUT).

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD

LYNYRD SKYNYRD performs SWEET HOME ALABAMA on Austin City Limits in 1999

In NY interplay as: QKLNK 5 CAMPAIGN 2012 ROMNEY SWEET HOME ALABAMA 030912 Event: Birmingham, AL: Attends an event at Thompson Tractor (2401 Pinson Valley Parkway. Birmingham, AL) FTG OF GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEY IN BIRMINGHAM AL / At his event in Birmingham just now, Mitt Romney was introduced and endorsed by the frontman of Alabama, Randy Owen. A few minutes into his speech, Romney said he wished he would've heard Owen sing "Sweet Home Alabama," which is not a song by Owen's band Alabama but one by Lynyrd Skynyrd Owen sang it anyways.

Free Bird

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD - THAT SMELL

GOOD FILE OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD.

LYNYRD SKYNYRD - FREE BIRD

Jacksonville's best-known rock band moves concert to Gainesville because of bad acoustics at Jacksonville arena. Will move file video of band in a previous Jacksonville concert.

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Sweet Home Alabama

NAME: US CONCERT 110905N TAPE: EF05/0811 IN_TIME: 10:43:10:13 DURATION: 00:03:57:05 SOURCES: MTV Networks Group DATELINE: Various, 10 September 2005 RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale without clearance/No Internet SHOTLIST: New York, NY 1. Alicia Keys performing Nashville, Tennessee 2. Lynyrd Skynyrd performing with Kid Rock Foxboro, Massachusetts 3. Green Day performing Milwaukee, Wisconsin 4. Rolling Stones performing New York, NY 5. Coldplay performing 6. Sheryl Crow performing Toronto, Canada 7. U2 performing Los Angeles, California 8. Kanye West performing Toronto, Canada 9. Elton John performing Bonner Springs, Kansas 10. Dave Mathews Band performing Nashville, Tennessee 11. Neil Young performing STORYLINE: Some of the world's leading musicians joined forces on Saturday in a televised concert appeal to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Across the United States, acts including the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Green Day, and U2 appeared in the four hour special programme "ReAct Now: Music and Relief" aired on the MTV, VH1 and CMT channels. The concert was aimed at raising funds for the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, America's Second Harvest and similar organisations in the wake of the hurricane. Last week, an appeal televised by NBC was marked by rapper Kanye West's off-script comment that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." But on Saturday performers stuck to their scripts, including West, who sang accompanied by string instruments.

LYNYRD SKYNYRD performs WORKIN' on Austin City Limits in 1999

LYNYRD SKYNYRD performs PREACHER MAN on Austin City Limits in 1999

TAPE: EF01/0690 IN_TIME: 13:36:43 DURATION: 1:20 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various, File SHOTLIST 1. B-roll Paul McCartney (Wingspan signing, Berlin) 2. B-roll David Bowie (Yahoo! awards, NYC) 3. B-roll Bruce Springsteen (London, 1998) 4. B-roll Sting (South Africa, 2000) 5. B-roll Harvey Weinstein (1999) 6. B-roll Gwyneth Paltrow (March 2000) 7. B-roll Jerry Seinfeld PAUL McCARTNEY ANNOUNCES NEW YORK BENEFIT CONCERT Paul McCartney, John Mellencamp, Macy Gray, Jerry Seinfeld and Gwyneth Paltrow are among the stars who will participate in 'The Concert for New York', a benefit for those affected by the World Trade Center attacks. The former Beatle will headline the biggest charity rock concert since Bob Geldof's Live Aid in 1985. The four-hour concert, scheduled for Oct. 20 at Madison Square Garden, will be broadcast live on VH1 and simulcast on radio stations across the country, VH1 said in a statement. A phone number will be featured so viewers and listeners can make a donation. All the money will go to aid the victims of the attacks and their families, said the network. Among the performers lined up for the concert, which is being coordinated by Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, are Bon Jovi, the Goo Goo Dolls, India Arie, The Who, James Taylor, and Melissa Etheridge. Jim Carrey and John Cusack have also agreed to participate, the network said. Organizers also plan to invite 5,000 members of the New York fire, police and rescue crews, as well as their families. Sir Paul McCartney announced last week that he wanted to stage a benefit show to aid the families of firefighters affected by the New York atrocities. The music legend - who has occasionally released records under the name The Fireman - has been in the city since the terrorist strikes and praised the "heroism" he had seen. He is now working out a venue in the city at which to stage the show. "I was here in New York when the disaster happened," he said. "I was actually on a plane, on the Tarmac, when the pilot said it's all been closed down. I've been in New York ever since and, in a way, I was pleased to be here to witness all the heroism. "What I am going to do is to do a concert here in New York within the next month to benefit all the firemen. "I have a connection there, my father was a fireman in Liverpool during World War Two. Anyway, we are looking at venues in New York now to do this benefit concert next month." The musician added: "I'd also just like to take a second to say to all the people of New York - God bless everyone and good luck to us all, and my thanks to all the heroes and heroines who have been helping with the situation." Paul McCartney is far from alone in organising celebrity responses to the terrorist attacks. Michael Jackson is continuing to work on his own charity single alongside Destiny's Child, Seal, Tom Petty and Boyz II Men. Canadian singer Dion and British singer/songwriter Gabrielle are joining forces to stage a benefit concert in Montreal for the US victims of the terror attacks. And Styx, REO Speedwagon and Lynyrd Skynyrd are among the bands performing at benefit concerts scheduled to take place next month (OCT01) in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas, Texas.