Jim Gordon is so much more than the drummer in Eric Clapton’s band, Derek and the Dominos. Jim played drums on the soundtrack to many people’s lives. He had a remarkable studio drumming career that was unfortunately eclipsed by the commission of a horrific crime when he killed his own mother. He was jailed for the rest of his life, and many people were left to deal with his awful crime. As Gordon spent his last years in jail, writer Joel Selvin took it upon himself to try to tell the difficult and untold story of Jim’s music, Jim’s schizophrenia, Jim’s crime, and the pain that it caused. It was a fine line to walk. But the Gordon family (eventually) cooperated, and Selvin told the entire gut-wrenching story Joel Selvin spent 36 years writing as the pop music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, he grew up in the Bay […]

May 2024 Issue