Thanks to Craig Rosen of Number1Albums for the assist. Jojo Billingsley was 58 when she died of cancer on June 24, 2010. She also performed with members of the group at occasional charity or memorial events in recent years. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s exhausting tour schedule would not permit the band to sleep that would change on Octowhen the Freebird fell into a Mississippi swamp. ![]() Pyle’s dad, Del, loved flying planes as a hobby, and he passed away in a plane. For example, Artimus Pyle had an eerily similar thing happen to his father. In 2006, she reunited with the then-current members of Lynyrd Skynyrd at a their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. While the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash is a story most people know about, certain details remain largely unknown. The accident lead her to devote her life to the Lord as both a singer and later, minister. As the episode draws to a close, Mindy takes a poignant turn, sharing the fascinating story of Jojo Billingsley and her premonition dream about the tragic 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash. Billingsley has always maintained that she had a dream that the plane would crash just two nights prior and tried to stop the others from taking it. Along with Cassie Gaines and Leslie Hawkins she joined as a backing vocalist, and the trio became know as the Honkettes. Billingsley was a member of Skynyrd between 1975 to 1977. That all came to a tragic end on Octowhen she was the only member of the band not killed in a plane crash that took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Cassie Gaines, Steve Gaines, Dean Kilpatrick (the band’s road manager) the pilot and co-pilot. JoJo Billingsley, former backing vocalist with Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died aged 58. ![]() Billingsley joined the group in 1975, touring the world during their peak years. JoJo Billingsley was a songwriter and vocalist who is perhaps best remembered as a member of the “ Honkettes,” the so-nicknamed back-up singers for Lynyrd Skynyrd for nearly four years. Lynyrd Skynyrd (/ l n r d s k n r d /, LEN-rd SKIN-rd) is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida.The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass guitar), and Bob Burns (drums).
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