article_snippet.sent: The former drummer and a founding member of the Southern hard rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert 'Bob' Burns Jr, died late Friday in a single-vehicle crash near Cartersville, Georgia.
article_snippet.sent: The former drummer of the Southern hard rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert 'Bob' Burns Jr, died late Friday .
article_snippet.sent: the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd dedicated the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd song Free Bird to Burns' memory.
article_snippet.sent: Three other band members were previously killed in a plane crash in 1977.
highlights_snippet.sent: After 1971 death of Allman Brothers guitarist, Skynrd dedicated Free Bird .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Three other band members were previously killed in a plane crash in 1977 .