The year was 1970, and Jim Gordon was in rock 'n' roll heaven. The drummer was on part of Joe Cocker’s infamous Mad Dogs and Englishmen revue, a traveling circus of sex, drugs and legendary ...

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

Session hero was shunned after violently murdering his mom - but new book seeks to inspire compassion for psychotic who couldn’t control voices in his head. Drummer Jim Gordon, Co-Writer of ...