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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 ...
15 mar 2023 · His death was confirmed by a publicist, Bob Merlis, who said Gordon died of natural causes “after a long incarceration and lifelong battle with mental illness.”
17 mar 2023 · Jim Gordon, Top Rock Drummer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 77 He was an elite studio musician who played with A-list artists and helped write the Eric Clapton hit “Layla."
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.
17 mar 2023 · Famed rock ‘n’ roll session drummer Jim Gordon has died at age 77. Gordon backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother.
16 mar 2023 · Jim Gordon, a drummer who played with dozens of rock stars and shared songwriting credits with Eric Clapton on the hit “Layla,” but faced deepening mental health crises and spent the past four...
Death. Gordon died in prison on March 13, 2023, at the age of 77. Two marriages, to singer Renee Armand and dancer Jill Barabe, both ended in divorce. He was survived by his daughter, Amy Gordon, who was born in 1968.
