The Tragic Life of Ed King – The Lynyrd Skynyrd Survivor Who Carried the Guilt Forever

He wrote this riff. (Pause, insert ""Sweet Home Alabama"" sound) An immortal sound. The soul of Lynyrd Skynyrd. And then he threw it all away... because of a broken guitar string. A fight with Ronnie Van Zant. That's all it took for Ed King, the architect of their biggest hit, to walk away. It was the most unprofessional, career-suicidal move imaginable. And it was... the single luckiest decision in the entire history of rock music. Because two years later, the plane carrying that band crashed into a swamp. And the man who walked away? He was the only one alive to hear the news. This is not a survivor's story. This is an indictment of a man whose pettiness... inadvertently saved his life, and in return, took his soul. #EdKing #LynyrdSkynyrd #SweetHomeAlabama #SouthernRock #RockHistory #PlaneCrash #RonnieVanZant #StrawberryAlarmClock #SurvivorsGuilt #Biography