Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Atlanta (CNN) I mate a Robert Lewis Burns Jr., te kaiwhakatangi puoro taketake o te roopu toka o te tonga o Lynyrd Skynyrd, i te po o te Paraire i roto i te aitua waka, e ai ki te kaikorero mo te Kaitiaki o Georgia State. I mate a Burns, 64, i muri i te tukinga o tana motuka ki tetahi pouaka mēra me tetahi rakau i Cartersville, e ai ki te kaikorero a James Tallent. Kāore he atu waka i uru ki te tukinga, i puta i mua tata i te poutumarotanga. "Kaore ia i herea i te wa o te hinganga", i kii a Tallent ki a CNN. I noho te kaiwaiata ki te raki o Georgia. Ko Burns tetahi o nga roopu taketake o te roopu whakatakotoranga momo, i hangaia i Jacksonville, Florida, i te tau 1965. Ko te kaiwaiata Ronnie Van Zant i tiimata te Noble Five me Burns, nga kaitara Gary Rossington me Allen Collins me te kaiwaiata bass Larry Junstrom i to raatau taone. Kātahi ka whakarerekētia te ingoa hei tohutoro ki tētahi kaiako hākinakina kura tuarua. I hurihia e Lynyrd Skynyrd nga mema i roto i nga tau i te wa e whakaputa ana i nga waiata toka tae atu ki te "Sweet Home Alabama" me te "Freebird". I wehe a Burns i te roopu i mua i tana pukaemi whakaata tuatoru, "Nuthin Fancy", i te 1975, "kua pau i te haerenga", e ai ki te pukapuka a te roopu Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kāore ia i whai wāhi ki te tukinga rererangi o te tau 1977 i mate ai ngā mema tokotoru, tae atu ki a Van Zant. I whakauruhia te roopu ki te Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i te 2006. Kei te haereere tonu a Lynyrd Skynyrd me Rossington, te mema taketake anake kei roto i te roopu. "I tenei ra kaore au i te kupu engari ka mahara noa ahau he tangata ngahau a Bob", i kii a Rossington i runga i te whaarangi Facebook a te roopu. "Kei te mihi atu ahau ki tōna whānau, ā, kia manaaki te Atua i a ia me rātou i tēnei wā pouri. He kaitākaro puoro tino nui ia". Ko ngā tāngata i ngaro i a mātou i te tau 2015.
Ko Robert Lewis Burns Jr. tētahi wāhanga o te rārangi taketake o Lynyrd Skynyrd. I patua e tana waka tētahi pouaka mēra me tētahi rākau i mua noa iho i te poutumarotanga.