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Gordon was a session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s and was the drummer in the blues rock supergroup Derek and the Dominos. In 1983, in a psychotic episode associated with undiagnosed schizophrenia, Gordon murdered his mother and was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison, remaining incarcerated until his death in 2023.
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.
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...
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.
15 mar 2023 · Jim Gordon, a drummer who played on Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, died Monday at the age of 77. The musician, who was diagnosed with...
17 mar 2023 · 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.
17 mar 2023 · Jim Gordon, a talented but troubled drummer who was ubiquitous in the recording studios of the 1960s and ’70s and who, as a member of Eric Clapton’s band Derek and the Dominos, helped write the...
