Jim Gordon dead: Eric Clapton’s award-winning drummer dies aged 77 in mental facility | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Other big-time collaborators include Steely Dan, Little Richard, Sonny and Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Glen Campbell, the Everly Brothers and even the Byrds with fellow LA rocker David Crosby, who also died this year.
He was listed as one of the best drummers of the 60s and 70s, with rappers such as Jay Z and Nas still sampling his work today.
However, Jim suffered from severe mental illness which would result in the brutal murder of his 72-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon, on June 3, 1983.
It wasn’t until his arrest that he was properly diagnosed with schizophrenia, though during the trial he was prohibited to use his insanity as a defence due to changes to state law at the time.
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