Lynyrd Skynyrd Keyboardist Dies At Florida Home

Florida Mississippi  The band was scheduled to play at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi on Saturday. The show has been canceled and tickets are being refunded.
by WKRG Staff/The Associated Press
Published: Wed, January 28, 2009 - 11:46 am CST Last Updated: Wed, January 28, 2009 - 3:37 pm CST
3:29 p.m.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was scheduled to play in Biloxi on Saturday.

The Beau Rivage Hotel & Casino tells News 5 the show has been canceled. Tickets are automatically being refunded. If you have any questions, call the Beau Rivage Ticket Office at 228.386.7777.

11:46 a.m.
ORANGE PARK, Fla. (AP) - A keyboardist for the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has died at his northeast Florida home.
Orange Park Police Lt. Mark Cornett says 56-year-old keyboard
player Billy Powell called 911 about 12:55 a.m. Wednesday saying he
was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he
was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m.
Cornett says no foul play is suspected and an autopsy will not
be performed.
He says Powell missed a Tuesday appointment with his doctor for
a cardiac evaluation. A heart attack is suspected.
Powell was one of two band members who were performing with the
band before a plane crash in 1977 that killed three of the band's
members.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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My prayers and thoughts to his family. A great loss of talent to mankind.

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