Posted on 03/17/2023 3:21:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Wreaking Crew. Unfortunately he lived up to his name. RIP.
“The troubled session ace’s already-impressive career was cut short in 1984, when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for brutally murdering his mother in an attack with a hammer during a schizophrenic episode, before stabbing her to death with a butchers’ knife in 1983.”
He killed her once with a hammer and once with a knife? I’m confused.
Why did alcohol abuse by his doctors impact his life? If my doctor takes on an addiction, it should not impact my life. This sounds strange. /s
Read about his tragic case a few years ago when Eric Clapton was discussing it.
Voices told him the only wat to stop his inner torment was to kill her.
This long story had details and photos.
A tragedy of mental illness.
https://musicoholics.com/backstage-stories/jim-gordon-the-drummer-whose-voices-fractured-his-psyche/
I r a profesunal jrnolist!
In this country, the bestselling version of Apache was by Jörgen Ingmann, which rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot Hundred in the early months of 1961.
So first he murdered his mother with a hammer?
And then he stabbed her to death with a butcher knife?
Did the sloppy DA only charge him with one of the crimes. Plus, sentence of 16 years? In what world is that justice?
Wonky article:
If Gordon was sentenced to 16 years prison in 1984, why was he still in prison until his death?
There was a thread the other day on Layla by Derek and the Dominoes.
Jim Gordon was the pianist who brought that song to a fantastic flourishing finish. I didn't know he was a homicidal mother murderer.
I looked it up elsewhere, and it doesn’t make sense. He had his first parole in 1991, but he should have been out in 2000, parole or no parole. It doesn’t say he committed other crimes.
He had many talents.
He had many talents.
Evidently. He could multitask his mother murdering. With a hammer AND a butcher knife.
I can’t hear “Imagine” without thinking of him.
Gordon (& Clapton) cheated Rita Coolidge out of songwriting credit on the ‘Layla’ piano exit...
https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/rita-coolidge-layla-memoir-delta-lady-eric-clapton-derek-dominos-7318951/
“He killed her once with a hammer and once with a knife? I’m confused.”
Both. He attacked his mother with a hammer and also stabbed her. He had been an alcoholic and a heroin addict. Good riddance to him.
You can kill someone with a hammer, then you can stab the dead body. You can’t stab the corpse to death.
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