What is Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington's net worth?
GARY Rossington is the guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Rossington is expected to make a full recovery following emergency surgery.
What is Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington's net worth?
Being an American musician and founder of Lynyrd Skynyrd comes with a nice pay day.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Rossington has an estimated net worth of $40million.
Prior to going with the name Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band was originally named The Noble Five and The One Perfect.
Since 1991, the band has sold over 20 million albums and produced 14 studio albums.
Rossington is currently the only original member of the band and in 2006, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Did Gary Rossington have surgery?
The band posted on Facebook that their lead guitarist is currently recovering after undergoing emergency heart surgery.
"He wants everyone to know he is doing good and expects a full recovery," the band said in their statement. "We wish Gary a speedy recovery and we will see the Skynyrd Nation very soon!"
This is not Rossington's first time with heart problems. In October 2015, Rossington suffered a heart attack and in 2018, he told the Tampa Bay Times that he had previously survived a quintuple bypass surgery.
He also told the paper that he has had "a lot" of heart attacks on stage.
While the band is currently on tour, the Facebook post said that Rossington has "encouraged the band to go perform in his absence."
"After this past year, the country being shut down and everything we have all been thru, The Rossington's encouraged the band to go perform in his absence," the band said. "Music is a powerful healer! We all felt playing the shows and bringing the music to y'all was a better option than cancelling the performances."
Who are the original members of Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Formed in the summer of 1964, there were five original members based out of Jacksonville, Florida.
Those members included:
- Gary Rossington
- Ronnie Van Zant
- Bob Burns
- Allen Collins
- Larry Junstorm
Rossington is the only remaining member because the others have tragically passed away over the years.
In 1977, Van Zant died in a tragic plane crash that also injured Rossington and Collins.
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"One day we had everything, the next day there was nothing. We were on top of the world, and we were thrown down," Rossington told People in 1980.
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Collins later died in 1990 from pneumonia, a complication that came from being paralyzed from the waist down in a 1986 car accident, while Burns died in a car crash back in 2015.
In 2019, Junstorm passed away but a cause of death was never disclosed.
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