Are they going to cut Rita Coolidge in their pay day this time?? One of all-time greatest rock-and-roll ripoffs occurred when Jim Gordon stole his then-girlfriend Coolidge’s song “Time,” ditched her lyrics and tacked the melody onto his and Eric Clapton’s song “Layla,” earning millions for the lads. (Of course Gordon didn’t really get to enjoy his wealth for long, as he’d soon go to prison for murder).
Thanks for the rock trivia! I had never heard that before.
Well gee. One learns something every day, if one pays attention.
From Wiki...
On June 3, 1983, Gordon attacked his 71-year-old widowed mother, Osa Marie (Beck) Gordon, with a hammer, then fatally stabbed her with a butcher knife, claiming that a voice told him to kill her.[6][9][10]
Only after his arrest for murder was Gordon properly diagnosed with schizophrenia. At his trial, the court accepted that he had acute schizophrenia, but he was not allowed to use an insanity defense because of changes to California law arising from the federal Insanity Defense Reform Act.[7]
On July 10, 1984, Gordon was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.[11] He was first eligible for parole in 1991, but it was denied several times because he never attended a parole hearing.
In 2014, he declined to attend his hearing and was denied parole until at least 2018. A Los Angeles deputy district attorney stated at the hearing that Gordon was still “seriously psychologically incapacitated” and “a danger when he is not taking his medication”.[12]
In November 2017, Gordon was rediagnosed with schizophrenia. On March 7, 2018, he was denied parole for the tenth time and was tentatively scheduled to become eligible again in March 2021.[13]
At the time of his death in 2023, he was serving his sentence at the California Medical Facility, a medical and psychiatric prison in Vacaville, California.