How Lynyrd Skynyrd's Street Survivors Foreshadowed Their Plane Crash

May 2024 ยท 1 minute read

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, after the plane crash, the album cover became highly controversial: The original cover sleeve for Street Survivors featured a photograph of the southern rock group standing on a city street with all its buildings engulfed in flames. Some near the center nearly covered Steve Gaines's face altogether. The album also included an order form for a "Lynyrd Skynyrd Survival Kit," per Check Six.

Out of respect for those who died in the crash (particularly at the request of Teresa Gaines, Steve's widow), MCA Records pulled the original cover and replaced it with a similar image of the band against a black background. Conspiracy theorists have since claimed that only those band members touched by flames in the original album cover were killed in the crash, but that theory has been dismantled, as flames touch nearly all band members. Thirty years later, in 2008, the original "flames" cover was restored for the deluxe CD version of Street Survivors.

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