Memphis-born, Stax-trained musician and singer also contributed to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and Eric Clapton’s ...

Bobby Whitlock, the Memphis musician who came of age alongside soul legends and went on to play with Eric Clapton and George ...

Jim Gordon, the rock ‘n’ roll session drummer who played on classic records by Eric Clapton, George Harrison and The Beach Boys, died in 2023. He was 77.

LOS ANGELES — 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, ...

Jim Gordon, a drummer who was part of Eric Clapton’s band Derek And The Dominos and who played on hundreds of important records, was convicted of stabbing his mother to death in 1983, and he ...

Bobby Whitlock, a rock music legend best known as a co-founding member of Derek and the Dominos, has died. He was 77.

The author of a book about Jim Gordon, the once in-demand session drummer who violently murdered his mother in 1983, said he wanted to bring the musician’s reputation back from infamy.

The short-lived Derek & the Dominos: Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon. Record cover detail He was arguably rock’s greatest drummer, or at least on the short list.

Drummer Jim Gordon is the unlikely subject of Joel Selvin's latest rock history book. (Brian Cooke / Redferns / Getty Images) The year was 1970, and Jim Gordon was in rock 'n' roll heaven.

Joel Selvin’s new book chronicles rock drummer Jim Gordon’s descent into madness. What: Joel Selvin reading from “Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon.” Where: Copperfield’s ...