Jim Gordon On Drums
Jim Gordon, a drummer on scores of hit albums, including great ones by The Beach Boys, Joe Cocker, Alice Cooper, Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Diamond, and John Lennon, wrote the beautiful piano parts on the Eric Clapton song “Layla.”
Sadly, Gordon suffered from schizophrenia and murdered his mother with a butcher knife in 1983, spending the last 30 years incarcerated in a mental facility. He died in prison on March 13, 2023 at the age of 77 at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
Jim was cremated and the location of his ashes are unknown.
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