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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.
Gordon developed schizophrenia and began to hear voices (including his mother's) which compelled him to starve himself and prevented him from sleeping, relaxing or playing drums. [7] His physicians misdiagnosed the problems and instead treated him for alcohol abuse .
17 mar 2023 · Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies. March 17, 20231:31 AM ET. By. 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.
3 cze 2013 · One of rock and roll’s strangest tragedies took place thirty years ago today (June 3, 1983), when famed drummer Jim Gordon murdered his own mother during an episode of undiagnosed...
4 sie 2023 · The tune Jim laid down in 1974 that wound up as the most sampled drum break in history; And the ways in which Jim managed his schizophrenia that allowed him to move about undetected amidst the highest levels of the era’s rock aristocracy.
16 mar 2023 · The US musician died at the California Medical Facility, a medical and psychiatric prison. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was serving a life sentence for murdering his mother in 1983. Gordon was a student of Hal Blaine, who is thought to be one of the most recorded studio drummers in the industry.
18 maj 2024 · Gordon was arrested and later diagnosed with acute schizophrenia. During his trial, it was revealed that he had been hearing his mother’s voice in his head, commanding him to commit the crime.