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Jim Gordon, Top Rock Drummer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 77

He was an elite studio musician who played with A-list artists and helped write the Eric Clapton hit “Layla.” But his life was shattered by mental illness and a murder conviction.

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Deaths (Obituaries), Derek and the Dominos, Drums, Gordon, Jim (1944-2023), Layla (Song), Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides, Nineteen Hundred Sixties, Pop and Rock Music, Schizophrenia
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