Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 8, 2007. Photo courtesy of Sanctuary Records.
September 7, 2007 — Lynyrd Skynyrd will be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame this Saturday, Sept. 8. The ceremony will be held in the Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom of the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
The 29th annual festivities will begin with the Governor's Reception hosted by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, followed by dinner and the Georgy Awards Show with celebrity presenters and a performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Other inductees include Usher, Mylon LeFevre, Freddy Cole and Babs Richardson.
The gala supports Friends of Georgia Music Festival's mission to nurture the music industry in the state and also funds the organization's annual scholarship program.
Ranked as one of the best-selling bands of all time by the Recording Industry Association of America, recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Lynyrd Skynyrd is still going strong after releasing nearly 65 albums, with 30 million sold to date. The band still performs more than 80 shows each year, and the Southern anthem "Sweet Home Alabama" has passed the 1,000,000 mark in downloaded master ringtones.
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