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4 unusual facts about Billy Powell


Billy Powell

In 2007, two years before his death, Powell played piano on Kid Rock's summer anthem "All Summer Long" (which samples "Sweet Home Alabama").

The music he had recorded with Vision was played exclusively and Kid Rock sang a tribute song to Billy at the service.

Powell suffered severe facial lacerations, almost completely losing his nose but was otherwise relatively uninjured.

Billy returned to Jacksonville where he enrolled at Bishop Kenny High School.



see also

Rossington Collins Band

In 1983, the Allen Collins Band, featuring Allen Collins, Barry Harwood, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, and Derek Hess from RCB (also featuring Jacksonville natives Randall Hall and Jimmy Doughtry) was formed, but also soon fell apart.