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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 .
Known for playing with Eric Clapton and the Beach Boys in the '60s and '70s, the drummer was sentenced to prison in 1984. Jim Gordon, famed session drummer convicted of murdering his mother, dies ...
Jim Gordon, a prolific and in-demand session drummer for dozens of acts who joined Eric Clapton in writing “Layla” for their band Derek and the Dominos and later was convicted of murdering his ...
The session drummer was convicted of killing his mother in 1983 and was serving time in prison when he died Jim Gordon death: Drummer for Eric Clapton and Beach Boys dies in prison aged 77 Skip to ...
He was sentenced to twelve years in prison but was released after nine years on April 3, 2014. Jim Gordon, the drummer, spent some time at CMC after killing his mother in 1983. Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson was in CMC between 1984 and October 1986 "for sexually assaulting two teen-age girls and then trying to bribe them not to testify against him."
Another tragic footnote to the Dominos story was the fate of drummer Jim Gordon, who had undiagnosed schizophrenia and years later murdered his mother during a psychotic episode. Gordon was confined to 16-years-to-life imprisonment, later being moved to a mental institution, where he remained for the rest of his life. [20]
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. According to the announcement ...
James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan James Lindsay Gordon (1813–1877) attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates James Gordon (Mississippi politician) (1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator