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"textContent": "Lynyrd Synyrd’s Free Bird was the monster hit that the band themselves didn’t believe in",
"title": "“Ronnie was not interested in improvisation. Every bit of it was planned out. Every guitar solo was played exactly the same. I have never met a band that did that”: The accidental classic that lifted one band to immortality – and defined a whole genre"
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