1 A stereotype is an oversimplified and fixed idea of what a particular group of people are like or do. 2  Stereotypes take into account characteristics, personality types, or behaviors. A stereotype is an oversimplified and fixed idea of what a particular group of people are like or do. 2  Stereotypes take into account characteristics, personality types, or behaviors.
When Allen first showed the song to Ronnie Van Zant, he scoffed at it, saying it had too many words.. Later Van Zant had an idea for a melody, asked Allen to play him the song again, and Free Bird was born.
But maybe what is less well known is the fate of 3 of the Lynyrd Skynyrd original members, including the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant. A tragic plane crash took the lives of these band members and severely injured everyone else on board the aircraft in 1977.