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 one of the most remarkable plane crash tragedies is the one that took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and two other later Lynyrd Skynyrd original members, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, vocalist Cassie Gaines, in 1977.