Drummer Jim Gordon, co-author of the rock classic ‘Layla’ and in prison for 40 years, dies

Drummer Jim Gordon co author of the rock classic Layla and

Few songs so classic as layla, and few lives as lurid as that of one of its two authors (the other is Eric Clapton), Jim Gordon. The Californian drummer has died at the age of 77 in a center to treat mental problems for inmates in Vacaville, California. Gordon had been in prison since 1983, … Read more