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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name = Jim Gordon
| image = Jim Gordon - Derek and the Dominos.png
| caption = Gordon (far left) with [[Derek and the Dominos]]
| landscapebackground = yesnon_vocal_instrumentalist
| backgroundbirth_name = non_vocal_instrumentalistJames Beck Gordon
| birth_namebirth_date = James{{Birth Beck Gordondate|mf=yes|1945|7|14}}
| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.▼
| birth_datedeath_date = {{BirthDeath date and age|mf=yes2023|3|13|1945|7|14}}
▲| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_place = [[Vacaville, California]], U.S.▼
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|3|13|1945|7|14}}
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-gordon-mn0000848696/biography|title=Jim Gordon - Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=25 January 2018|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410154629/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-gordon-mn0000848696/biography|url-status=live}}</ref>▼
▲| death_place = [[Vacaville, California]], U.S.
| occupation = Drummer▼
▲| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-gordon-mn0000848696/biography|title=Jim Gordon - Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref>
| instrument = {{hlist|[[Drum kit|Drums]]|[[Percussion instrument|percussion]]|[[piano]]|[[organ (music)|organ]]}}▼
▲| occupation = Drummer
| years_active = 1963–1980▼
▲| instrument = {{hlist|[[Drum kit|Drums]]|[[Percussion instrument|percussion]]|[[piano]]|[[organ (music)|organ]]}}
| past_member_of = {{hlist|[[Delaney & Bonnie and Friends]]|[[Derek and the Dominos]]|[[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]}}▼
▲| years_active = 1963–1980
▲| past_member_of = {{hlist|[[Delaney & Bonnie and Friends]]|[[Derek and the Dominos]]|[[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]}}
}}
 
'''James Beck Gordon''' (July 14, 1945 – March 13, 2023) was an American musician, songwriter, and convicted murderer. Gordon was a [[session musician|session]] [[drummer]] in the late 1960s and 1970s and was the drummer in the [[blues rock]] [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] [[Derek and the Dominos]].
 
In 1983, in a psychotic episode associated with undiagnosed [[schizophrenia]], Gordon [[Matricide|murdered his mother]] and was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison, remaining incarcerated until his death in 2023.
 
==Music career==
Gordon was raised in the [[San Fernando Valley]] of [[Los Angeles]] and attended [[Grant High School (Los Angeles)|Grant High School]].<ref>Kent Hartman, ''The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret'' ([[Macmillan Publishers]], 2012), {{ISBN|978-0312619749}}, p. 235. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-ne73TRP1FQC&dq=jim+gordon+drummer+%22grant+high+school%22&pg=PA235 Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> He passed up a music scholarship to [[UCLA]] in order to begin his professional career in 1963, at age 17, backing the [[Everly Brothers]]. He went on to become one of the most sought-after recording session drummers in Los Angeles. The protégé of studio drummer [[Hal Blaine]], Gordon performed on many notable [[sound recording and reproduction|recordings]] in the 1960s, including ''[[Pet Sounds]]'', by [[the Beach Boys]] (1966); ''[[The Spirit of '67 (Paul Revere & the Raiders album)|The Spirit of '67]]'', by [[Paul Revere & the Raiders]]; ''[[Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers]]'', by [[Gene Clark]] (1967); ''[[Who Knows Where the Time Goes]]'', by [[Judy Collins]] (1968)''[[The Notorious Byrd Brothers]]'', by [[the Byrds]] (1968); and the hit "[[Classical Gas]]", by [[Mason Williams]] (1968). At the height of his career Gordon was reportedly so busy as a [[studio musician]] that he flew back to Los Angeles from [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]] every day to do two or three recording sessions and then returned in time to play the evening show at [[Caesars Palace]].
 
In 1969 and 1970 Gordon toured as part of the backing band for [[Delaney & Bonnie]], which at the time included [[Eric Clapton]]. Clapton subsequently took over the group's [[rhythm section]] — Gordon ([[drummer]]), [[Carl Radle]] ([[bassist]]), [[Bobby Whitlock]] ([[keyboardist]], singer, songwriter) — and they formed a new band, later called [[Derek and the Dominos]]. The band's first studio work was as the house band for [[George Harrison]]'s three-disc set ''[[All Things Must Pass]]'' (1970).
 
Gordon then played on [[Derek and the Dominos]]' 1970 double album, ''[[Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs]]'' and also played with the band on subsequent U.S. and UK tours. The group split in spring 1971 before they finished recording their second album. In addition to his drumming, Gordon was credited with contributing the elegiac [[piano]] coda for the title track, "[[Layla]]". In later years, Whitlock claimed that the coda was not actually written by Gordon: "Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend [[Rita Coolidge]]. I know because in the D&B days I lived in [[John Garfield]]'s old house in the [[Hollywood Hills]] and there was a guest house with an upright piano in it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called "Time". (Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with [[Booker T. Jones]]) Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it. Her boyfriend ripped her off".<ref name=whitlock>{{cite web|title=Layla's 40th: The Where's Eric! Interview With Bobby Whitlock|url=http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-news/303-layla%E2%80%99s-40th-where%E2%80%99s-eric-interview-bobby-whitlock|publisher=Whereseric.com|access-date=2015-06-20|archive-date=2020-10-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024151834/https://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-news/303-layla%E2%80%99s-40th-where%E2%80%99s-eric-interview-bobby-whitlock|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Graham Nash]] (who later dated Coolidge) substantiated Whitlock's claim in his memoir.<ref>"Wild Tales" - Crown Publishing Group</ref> "Time" was not released by [[Priscilla Coolidge]] and Booker T. until 1973, on their album ''Chronicles''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Booker-T-Priscilla-Jones-Chronicles/release/2285764 |title=Booker T.* & Priscilla Jones - Chronicles (Vinyl, LP, Album) |publisher=Discogs.com |date=2011-09-17 |access-date=2015-06-20}}</ref>
 
In 1970 Gordon was part of [[Joe Cocker]]'s ''[[Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album)|Mad Dogs & Englishmen]]'' tour and played on [[Dave Mason]]'s album ''Alone Together''. In 1971, he toured with [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]] and appeared on two of their albums, including ''[[The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys]]''. That same year he played on [[Harry Nilsson]]'s album ''[[Nilsson Schmilsson]]'', contributing the drum solo on the track "[[Jump into the Fire]]".
 
Gordon was the drummer on the [[Incredible Bongo Band]]'s album ''Bongo Rock'', released in 1972, and his drum break on the [[phonograph record|LP]] version of "[[Apache (instrumental)|Apache]]" has been frequently [[sample (music)|sample]]d by [[rap music]] artists.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/arts/music/29herm.html | title=All Rise for the National Anthem of Hip-Hop | work=[[New York Times]] | date=October 29, 2006 | first=Will | last=Hermes | access-date= 2006-11-01 | archive-date=2023-03-11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311153156/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/arts/music/29herm.html | url-status=live }}</ref> InHe 1972,recorded Gordon was also part ofwith [[Frank Zappa]]'s, 20-pieceincluding 'Grand Wazoo' big band and the subsequent 10-piece 'Petit Wazoo' band. Perhaps his best-known recording with Zappa ison the title track of the 1974 album ''[[Apostrophe (')]]'', a jam with Zappa and [[Tony Duran (musician)|Tony Duran]] on guitar and [[Jack Bruce]] on [[bass guitar]], for which both Bruce and Gordon received a writing credit (Zappa, when introducing Gordon onstage, frequently referred to him as "Skippy", because of his youthful appearance). Also in 1972, Gordon played drums on [[Helen Reddy]]'s Top 20 US album ''[[I Am Woman]]''.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
 
In 1973 Gordon played on [[Johnny Rivers]]' ''Blue Suede Shoes'' as well as on [[Art Garfunkel]]'s ''[[Angel Clare]]'' albums, and toured with Rivers through 1974 appearing on the ''Last Boogie in Paris'' live album. Also in 1974, Gordon played on most of the tracks on [[Steely Dan]]'s album ''[[Pretzel Logic]]'', including the single "[[Rikki Don't Lose That Number]]". He again worked with [[Chris Hillman]] of the Byrds as the drummer in the [[Souther–Hillman–Furay Band]] from 1973 to 1975. He also played drums on three tracks on [[Alice Cooper]]'s 1976 album, ''[[Alice Cooper Goes to Hell]]''.
 
==Mental health==
Gordon developed [[schizophrenia]] and began to hear voices (including his mother’smother's) which compelled him to starve himself and prevented him from sleeping, relaxing or playing drums.<ref name="inquirer">{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com:80/1994-08-21/entertainment/25842000_1_top-rock-stars-jim-gordon-grammy|title=The Haunted Talent Behind 'Layla' Jim Gordon Won A Grammy For Co-writing The Song That Eric Clapton Reprised In The '90s. But Honors Mean Little. Gordon Is Serving Time For The 1983 Slaying Of His Mother.|work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705001908/http://articles.philly.com/1994-08-21/entertainment/25842000_1_top-rock-stars-jim-gordon-grammy|access-date=1 May 2011|archive-date=2011-07-05|url-status=live}}</ref> His physicians misdiagnosed the problems and instead treated him for [[alcohol abuse]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}}
 
While on tour with [[Joe Cocker]] in the early 1970s, Gordon reportedly punched his then-girlfriend [[Rita Coolidge]] in a hotel hallway, therebycausing endingher to end their relationship.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Getlen|first1=Larry|title=Rita Coolidge was muse to rock icons — and this is how they treated her|url=https://nypost.com/2016/04/03/rita-coolidge-was-muse-to-rock-icons-and-this-is-how-they-treated-her/|access-date=2016-04-04|publisher=New York Post|date=2016-04-03|quote=They walked into the hallway, and something in Coolidge's mind told her this might be when Gordon would propose. As they got to the hallway, Coolidge slightly nervous in anticipatory delight, Gordon "hit me so hard that I was lifted off the floor and slammed against the wall on the other side of the hallway." As his fist met her eye, she "literally went flying" and was knocked unconscious. Then Gordon walked back into the room — alone — as if nothing had happened. The relationship was over, although Gordon was not removed from the tour — everyone worked to make sure she and Gordon were separated, she writes, and that she was safe.|archive-date=2023-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501040456/https://nypost.com/2016/04/03/rita-coolidge-was-muse-to-rock-icons-and-this-is-how-they-treated-her/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Murder of mother, conviction and incarceration==
On June 3, 1983, Gordon attacked his 71-year-old widowed mother, Osa Marie (Beck) Gordon, with a [[hammer]], then fatally stabbed her with a [[butcher knife]];, he claimedclaiming that a voice told him to kill her.<ref name="NYT" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/8386038/The-curse-of-the-Dominos.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/8386038/The-curse-of-the-Dominos.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The curse of the Dominos |work=[[Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=1 May 2011 |location=London |first=John |last=Robinson |date=March 16, 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/bloc-partys-drummer-is-latest-casualty-of-toughest-job-in-rock-423852.html|title=Bloc Party's drummer is latest casualty of toughest job in rock|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=1 May 2011|location=London|first=Terry|last=Kirby|date=November 11, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221153130/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/bloc-partys-drummer-is-latest-casualty-of-toughest-job-in-rock-423852.html|archive-date=2012-02-21}}</ref>
 
Only after his arrest for murder was Gordon properly diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]]. At his trial, the court accepted that he had acute schizophrenia, but he was not allowed to use an [[insanity defense]] because of changes to California law duearising tofrom the federal [[Insanity Defense Reform Act]].<ref name="inquirer" />▼
 
On July 10, 1984, Gordon was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iRhZAAAAIBAJ&pg=4202,1079941&dq=jim-gordon+murder&hl=en |title=Names.. In The News |date=11 July 1984 |work=The Union Democrat |access-date=1 May 2011 |archive-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323034919/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iRhZAAAAIBAJ&pg=4202,1079941&dq=jim-gordon+murder&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> He was first eligible for parole in 1991, but it was denied several times because he never attended a parole hearing.
 
In 2014, he declined to attend his hearing and was denied parole until at least 2018. A Los Angeles deputy district attorney stated at the hearing that Gordon was still "seriously psychologically incapacitated" and "a danger when he is not taking his medication".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Flanary |first1=Patrick |title=Jailed Drummer Jim Gordon Denied Parole |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jailed-drummer-jim-gordon-denied-parole-20130517 |access-date=2023-09-26 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=2013-05-17 |archive-date=2017-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814184528/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jailed-drummer-jim-gordon-denied-parole-20130517 |url-status=live }}</ref>
▲Only after his arrest for murder was Gordon properly diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]]. At his trial, the court accepted that he had acute schizophrenia, but he was not allowed to use an [[insanity defense]] because of changes to California law due to the [[Insanity Defense Reform Act]].<ref name="inquirer" />
 
On July 10, 1984, Gordon was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iRhZAAAAIBAJ&pg=4202,1079941&dq=jim-gordon+murder&hl=en|title=Names.. In The News|date=11 July 1984|work=The Union Democrat|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref> He was first eligible for parole in 1991, but parole was denied several times as he never attended a parole hearing. In 2014, he declined to attend his hearing and was denied parole until at least 2018. A Los Angeles deputy district attorney stated at the hearing that he was still "seriously psychologically incapacitated" and "a danger when he is not taking his medication".<ref>Flanary, Patrick (May 17, 2013) [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jailed-drummer-jim-gordon-denied-parole-20130517 Jailed Drummer Jim Gordon Denied Parole] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814184528/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jailed-drummer-jim-gordon-denied-parole-20130517 |date=2017-08-14 }} ''Rolling Stone Magazine''. Retrieved June 28, 2015.</ref> In November 2017, Gordon was rediagnosed with schizophrenia. On March 7, 2018, Gordonhe was denied parole for the tenth time and was tentatively scheduled to become eligible again in March 2021.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Flanary |first1=Patrick |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8408395/jim-gordon-drummer-denied-parole-layla-songwriter |title=Derek and the Dominos' Jim Gordon, Jailed for Killing His Mom, Denied Parole for Fear 'He'd Hurt Somebody Else' |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=2018-04-30 |access-date=2023-09-26 |archive-date=2021-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824224827/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8408395/jim-gordon-drummer-denied-parole-layla-songwriter |url-status=live }}</ref> AsAt the time of his death in 2023, he was serving his sentence at the [[California Medical Facility]], a medical and psychiatric prison in [[Vacaville, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/Details.aspx?ID=C89262 |title=CDCR Inmate Locator |publisher=California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation |date=January 14, 2018 |access-date=January 14, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{CiteDead weblink|urldate=https://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/Details.aspx?IDJuly 2024 |bot=C89262InternetArchiveBot |title fix-attempted=yes CDCR Public Inmate Locator Disclaimer}}</ref>
 
== Death ==
Gordon died in prison on March 13, 2023, at the age of 77. Two marriages, to singer Renee Armand and dancer Jill Barabe, both ended in divorce. He was survived by his daughter, Amy Gordon, who was born in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Aswad |first1=Jem |title=Jim Gordon, Drummer for Eric Clapton and ‘Layla’'Layla' Co-Writer Who Was Convicted of Murder, Dies at 77 |url=https://variety.com/2023/music/news/jim-gordon-drummer-layla-cowriter-dead-1235555775/ |website=Variety |date=15 March 2023 |access-date=March 15, 2023 |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316021119/https://variety.com/2023/music/news/jim-gordon-drummer-layla-cowriter-dead-1235555775/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
== Partial discography ==
During his career, Gordon played with a long list of musicians and record producers, including:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-gordon-mn0000848696/credits |title=Jim Gordon credits |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413031754/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-gordon-mn0000848696/credits |url-status=live }}</ref>
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