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17 mar 2023 · The Associated Press. LOS ANGELES — Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77. Gordon died Monday at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, the state Department of Corrections and ...
James Beck Gordon (July 14, 1945 – March 13, 2023) was an American musician, songwriter, and convicted murderer. Gordon was a session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s and was the drummer in the blues rock supergroup Derek and the Dominos.
15 mar 2023 · The musician, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was serving a prison sentence for killing his mother in 1983, died in a state-run medical facility in Vacaville, California.
5 mar 2024 · In March 2023, Gordon, age 77, died at a prison medical facility in Vacaville, California. Selvin, author of Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon, spoke with A&E True Crime about the mental health issues that derailed Gordon’s life and career.
17 mar 2023 · But his life was shattered by mental illness and a murder conviction. The drummer Jim Gordon in 1971. In the 1960s and ’70s he recorded with John Lennon, George Harrison, the Beach Boys and...
15 mar 2023 · In 1983, Gordon — known by then to friends and family for being “tormented,” as the Post put it, by voices in his head — killed his mother, Osa Marie Gordon, bludgeoning her with a hammer ...
16 mar 2023 · Drummer Jim Gordon, who played for Eric Clapton, George Harrison and numerous others, died on Monday from natural causes at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California.
