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Jim Gordon, drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, convicted of murdering his mom in 1983, has died at 77.
Jim Gordon, a high drummer for Eric Clapton’s Derek and the Dominos, George Harrison, and lots of others, has died at 77. Gordon reportedly died Monday of pure causes at California Medical Facility in Vacaville after a prolonged incarceration and lifelong battle with psychological sickness.
A member of Clapton’s band, Derek and the Dominos, Gordon is credited as co-writer of the 1970 traditional, “Layla.” He performed on a whole lot of songs as a part of the group of elite session musicians referred to as The Wrecking Crew.
Born in 1945, Jim Gordon was raised in California’s San Fernando Valley. He started enjoying drums as a toddler, enjoying with rock bands and the Burbank Symphony as a youngster. He was provided a music scholarship to UCLA however as an alternative joined the Everly Brothers for an abroad tour after graduating highschool in 1963.
Gordon performed on numerous rock songs all through the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, together with hits from the Seaside Boys, George Harrison, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, John Lennon, Gordon Lightfoot, Sonny and Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper, The Byrds — even the Unbelievable Bongo Band’s 1972 music “Apache,” that includes one of the sampled drum breaks in hip-hop. He toured with artists like Delaney & Bonnie and Buddies, Joe Cocker’s Mad Canines and Englishmen, and Derek and the Dominoes.
Arguably one of many best rock drummers of his period, sadly, Gordon’s lifelong and inadequately handled psychological sickness mixed with substance abuse resulted in his assaulting not less than two girlfriends within the ’70s. Whereas he obtained outpatient therapy for his situation on a couple of event, his erratic habits and paranoia continued.
After weeks of threatening habits, Gordon bludgeoned and stabbed his 72-year-old mom to loss of life on June 3, 1983, claiming that voices advised him to take action. He was formally recognized with schizophrenia and sentenced to 16 years to life in jail in 1984. Gordon was up for parole a number of occasions within the following years however was denied.
