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Jim Gordon, Eric Clapton Drummer Convicted of Murdering Mother, Dead at 77 - Rolling Stone

Jim Gordon, Eric Clapton Drummer Convicted of Murdering Mother, Dead at 77 - Rolling Stone

Jim Gordon, Eric Clapton Drummer Convicted of Murdering Mother, Dead at 77 - Rolling Stone
Mar 16, 2023 1 min, 12 secs

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 schizophrenia and was serving a prison sentence for killing his mother in 1983, died in a state-run medical facility in Vacaville, California.

Gordon’s drumming features on recordings by John Lennon, Cher, the Byrds ( The Notorious Byrd Brothers), Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits ( The Heart of Saturday Night), Neil Diamond, George Harrison ( All Things Must Pass), Yoko Ono, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mel Torme, and many others.

He can be heard on Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas,” and Glen Campbell’s “Gentle on My Mind.”

Gordon, ranked Number 59 on Rolling Stone ‘s list of the 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time despite his shortened career, was so highly regarded for his precision and craft that he even became the go-to session drummers for some of rock’s most notorious perfectionists, including Frank Zappa (who enlisted him for his Grand Wazoo band as well as “ Apostrophe,” for which Gordon received a co-writing credit) and Steely Dan, who hired Gordon to play on their 1974 LP Pretzel Logic and that album’s hit “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.”

“I had no idea that he had a psychotic history of visions and hearing voices, from an early age,” Clapton told Rolling Stone in 1991.

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