Jim Gordon, a drummer who was part of Eric Clapton’s band Derek And The Dominos and who played on hundreds of important records, was convicted of stabbing his mother to death in 1983, and he spent the rest of his life in prison. Variety reports that Gordon died on Monday of natural causes at Vacaville’s California Medical Fac...

His publicist confirmed the Derek and the Dominos member's death comes "after a long incarceration and lifelong battle with mental illness"The post Jim Gordon, session drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison convicted of murdering his mother, has died appeared first on NME.

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