In response to Neil Young's song Southern Man, the band Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote Sweet Home Alabama.
 The band would later cease use of the Confederate flag starting with their 2019 tour
=== Return (19871995) ===In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the pre-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash

