Most fans of Lynyrd Skynyrd know the broad outlines of the band’s tragic 1977 plane crash: six people were killed, twenty survived, and the group’s world changed forever. But very little is known publicly about the specific injuries the survivors sustained or the treatments that allowed some of them to recover.
What follows is one of the rarest pieces of evidence from that period: previously unreleased hospital footage of guitarist Allen Collins, filmed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center only days after the crash.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Allen Collins: Playing Guitar in the Hospital Days After the 1977 Plane Crash