Legendary 70s rock band cancels tour dates due to heartbreaking family emergency

Lynyrd Skynyrd has cancelled unrecorded shows aft Johnny Van Zant’s girl was diagnosed with a encephalon mass.

The 63-year-old frontman announced the heartbreaking quality of his girl Taylor’s health scare implicit the play aft the radical – whose past surviving founding subordinate Gary Rossington died past year – axed respective concerts owed to a ‘family emergency’.

He said successful a Facebook video: ‘First of all, I privation to convey you each for saying prayers for my family.

‘I did not denote my daughter’s sanction due to the fact that she is precise private. In saying that, I deliberation that a batch of you cognize it’s my youngest girl Taylor.’

He revealed however Taylor abruptly experienced numbness connected the close broadside of her body, with the household rushing her to the exigency room.

Johnny explained: ‘A mates of days ago, Taylor started feeling numbing connected her close side.

‘She went to the exigency room, they did a CAT scan, and they recovered the lone mode to accidental it is simply a wide connected her brain, and immoderate of it was bleeding. That was causing the numbing part.’

The Poor Some Sugar On Me stone prima noted aft being assessed by doctors and ‘a large neurology team’, the aesculapian professionals don’t judge the wide is cancerous.

However, helium added: ‘So, that’s a bully thing, but they are inactive doing a batch of testing.

‘We are not retired of the woods yet, but we are successful a batch amended presumption than we thought we were successful in the beginning.’

There has been much heartbreak for the set too, aft Johnny’s longtime circuit autobus operator Brad Gibson was successful a freak accident.

‘When it rains, it pours. My autobus operator who has been retired with me, well, for the past mates of months,’ helium began. ‘He wrecked the scooter and deed his head, and helium is successful the ICU. Brad Gibson is his name. I privation to get Brad backmost connected his feet, on with Taylor.

‘He has a beauteous family, young daughter, large family, and helium has been an awesome operator for us. Good guy, and a truly freak accident; if you guys tin accidental prayers, prayers, prayers for him.’

Johnny insisted helium wouldn’t fto the devil ‘get’ him and his loved ones, and helium was keeping religion contempt specified a devastating time.

He added: ‘We are going to combat him until the end. All helium wants to bash is origin america occupation and harm us.

‘So, deliberation astir that, I’m not going to fto it happen. I’m going to combat it each the mode with Jesus Christ.’

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