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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND – JULY 25: Cameron Winter of Geese performs during the 2025 Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park on July 25, 2025 in Newport, Rhode Island. (Photo by Douglas Mason/Getty Images)
CIRCA 1975: Lynyrd Skynyrd (L-R Allen Collins, Leon Wilkeson, Ronnie Van Zandt, Artimus Pyle, Gary Rossington, and Billy Powell) Pose for a portrait circa 1975. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Portrait of American R&B band Ready For The World, left to right, Gordon Strozier, John Eaton, Gregory Potts, Melvin Riley, Willie Triplett, and Gerald Valentine at the UIC Pavilion (University of Illinois – Chicago) in Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 1985. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
