Jim Gordon, a talented but troubled drummer who was ubiquitous in the recording studios of the 1960s and '70s and who, as a member of Eric Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos, helped write the romantic ballad Layla but who suffered from schizophrenia and spent nearly 40 years in prison, convicted of murdering his mother died on Monday in a prison medical facility in Vacaville, Calif.
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