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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 .
5 mar 2024 · Drums provided a necessary refuge for Gordon, who was fighting a private—and losing—battle with undiagnosed schizophrenia. “The drums were his face to the world. As long as he could play drums, he was alright,” writes music journalist Joel Selvin.
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 schizophrenia,...
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. Publicist Bob...
18 sie 2023 · The awe-inspiring story about how Jim achieved his studio masterpiece, Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”; The very moment that marked the end of his professional career; And the horrifying forensic rundown of the events that led to the murder of his own mother.
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.
