Ronnie said, ‘Why don’t you do something at the end of that so I can take a break for a few minutes.’ I came up with those three chords at the end and Allen and I traded solos and Ronnie kept telling us to make it longer we were playing three or four sets a night, and he was looking to fill it up and get a break.” That was not by design, recalls Rossington: “When we started playing it in clubs, it was just the slow part. Like “Stairway to Heaven,” one of its chief competitors for the unofficial title of rock’s most epic song, “Free Bird” starts out as a ballad before becoming a solo-fueled rocker. Play them again.’ He said, ‘I got it,’ and wrote the lyrics in three or four minutes-the whole damned thing! Then one day we were at rehearsal and Allen started playing those chords again, and Ronnie said, ‘Those are pretty. He thought that he had to change with every chord.
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Recalls Gary Rossington, “Allen had the chords for the beginning, pretty part for two full years and we kept asking Ronnie to write something and he kept telling us to forget it he said there were too many chords so he couldn’t find a melody.
But while everyone recognized the grace of the chord progression, Ronnie Van Zant could not come up with a suitable vocal melody. Guitarist Allen Collins came up with the music to “Free Bird” very early in the band’s songwriting process.
Originally released on pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd (MCA, 1973)
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