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Story behind Saturday Night Special

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https://www.loudersound.com/amp/features/the-story-behind-saturday-night-special-by-lynyrd-skynyrd

In art, as in life, some things are not always what they seem. So it is with the song that gave Lynyrd Skynyrd a US Top 30 hit in 1975.

The song in question has always been perceived as an anti-gun protest song. Actually it’s more complicated, more nuanced than that.

Saturday Night Special was a protest song with a caveat. In the words written and sung by Ronnie Van Zant, the leading figure in the band’s first great era, there was a question that went to the heart of America’s gun culture: ‘Why don’t we dump ’em, people, to the bottom of the sea?’ But the truth was that Ronnie Van Zant was no anti-gun campaigner.

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