Musician Jim Gordon died at the age of 77, in a medical center in the USA, connected to a prison, where he was serving a life sentence, for having killed his mother, with a hammer and with a knife, in 1983.
Before going to jail, the drummer played in Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos, where guitarist Eric Clapton shone. Both wrote Derek’s biggest hit, ‘Layla’, for which they won a Grammy (Music Oscar). He also worked, among others, with the Beach Boys, on the 1966 album ‘Pet Souds’, considered one of the most important in rock history; with George Harrison, guitarist for the Beatles, in ‘All Things Must Pass’, from 1970; and has appeared on records by John Lennon, Traffic, Van Dyke Park, Incredible Bongo Band, Art Garfunkel, Joe Cocker, Cher, Joan Baez and Steely Dan.
Gordon was born in 1945 in Los Angeles. He suffered from schizophrenia, a disease that began to manifest itself in 1970. In that year, incidentally, he punched his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Rita Coolidge. OL
