Jim Gordon

Session hero was shunned after violently murdering his mom - but new book seeks to inspire compassion for psychotic who couldn’t control voices in his head.

Jim Gordon, the noted session drummer who racked up an impressive list of credits that included co-writing the Derek and the Dominos classic 'Layla' with Eric Clapton, has been denied parole until at least 2018 after serving 30 years in prison for the 1983 murder of his mother.