Mr. Gordon’s collaborations included tracks on George Harrison’s first post-Beatles album, “All Things Must Pass” (1970); the Beach Boys’ epochal “Pet Sounds” album (1966) and Steely Dan’s 1974 song “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.”
Mr. Gordon sought outpatient treatment over schizophrenic-type episodes — saying he heard voices that directed him when to eat, what to wear and when to work. At times, he also would disappear on drug and alcohol binges.
The offers and gigs trailed off. In 1979, Mr. Gordon was with Paul Anka’s band in Las Vegas. After a few bars of the opening song, Mr. Gordon walked off the stage. Just before midnight on June 3, 1983, Mr. Gordon arrived at the North Hollywood home of his 71-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon. He struck her four times in the head with a hammer, police records said. She somehow survived that. He then repeatedly plunged a butcher knife into her chest, police said.At his trial in 1984, psychiatrists testified that Mr. Gordon believed his mother was controlling him through a voice in his head.
Mr. Gordon was sent to inmate medical facilities for treatment of schizophrenia. Over the decades, parole was denied.The Washington Post in 1994. “I can remember going through what happened in that space and time, and it seems kind of detached, like I was going through it on some other plane. It didn’t seem real.”James Beck Gordon was born in Los Angeles on July 14, 1945, and raised in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley as postwar suburbia swelled.
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