McCartney Times

It’s no secret that rock and roll has never controlled the most wholesome of characters. It doesn’t necessarily take a ton of sleuthing to find the dark back pages of legends like Eric Clapton or Led Zeppelin, especially with the benefit of hindsight, to see just how demented those days were. If it was this bad with the actual celebrities, it was a different story when talking about some session musicians like Jim Gordon.Around the end of the Summer of Love, Gordon was about to have a fairly lucrative career. In the wake of The Beatles’ breakup, Gordon played drums for some of the Fab Four’s solo material, including extensive work with George Harrison on his album Living in the Material World. From there, he started to rub elbows with some other titans of the industry, working with Eric Clapton to deliver one of the best breakdowns of the decade on the song ‘Layla’, coming up with the iconic piano figure that would become iconic along with Clapton’s riffs.

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