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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.
Jim Gordon, the "Layla" co-writer and Eric Clapton drummer who was later convicted of murdering his mother, has died at age 77.
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 ...
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.
Jim Gordon, a top drummer for Eric Clapton, George Harrison and countless others who was diagnosed with schizophrenia after murdering his mother in 1983, has died.
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.
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...
