Reuters, on the man who inspired the band that recorded the fourth-best conservative rock song of all time:

Leonard Skinner, a high-school gym teacher who became a rock ‘n’ roll footnote by inspiring a group of pupils to name their band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on Monday in Jacksonville, Fla., after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, the Florida Times-Union reported. He was 77.

Hat tip: Big Hollywood.