His publicist, Bob Merlis, confirmed to The Post that Gordon died Monday at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
Jim Gordon — the Grammy-winning rock drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison — who was convicted of killing his mother in 1983 while suffering from schizophrenia, has died. He was 77.at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville of natural causes “after a long incarceration and lifelong battle with mental illness.”Born on July 14, 1945, Gordon backed the Everly Brothers and played on The Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds.
Gordon eventually began to show signs of mental illness, and he reportedly punched his then-girlfriend, singer-songwriter Rita Coolidge, in a hotel in 1970.
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