Jim Gordon, the renowned session drummer who played with Derek and the Dominoes and many more, but was later jailed after murdering his mother, has died at the age of 77.

The news was confirmed in a statement from publicist Bob Merlis, who said Gordon died "after a long incarceration and lifelong battle with mental illness.”

Gordon was a member of the so-called Wrecking Crew in the 1960s, playing on dozens of hits and on albums like The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in 1967 and the following year's Byrds album The Notorious Byrd Brothers. After touring with Delaney & Bonnie in 1970 he joined Eric Clapton – who called him "the greatest rock’n’roll drummer I have ever played with" – plus Carl Radle and Bobby Whitlock in forming Derek and the Dominoes.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/derek-and-the-dominos-drummer-jim-gordon-dead-at-77

Hollywood actress Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82.

She "passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness", her management company said. She had two children - son Damon and daughter Tahnee.

Welch won a Golden Globe in 1975 for her role in The Three Musketeers. She made her initial breakthrough in 1966 in the sci-fi adventure Fantastic Voyage and prehistoric drama One Million Years BC. Despite having just a few lines of dialogue, her appearance in the latter was one of her best-known roles. Her only costume was a deer skin bikini. A publicity still of her in the two piece became a best-selling poster. In 2011, Time magazine put it at number six in the "top 10 bikinis in pop culture".

Alongside her acting career, Welch was seen as a sex symbol, with Playboy magazine calling her the "most desired woman" of the 1970s. Other screen credits in the late 1960s and early 70s included starring roles in Bedazzled, Bandolero!, 100 Rifles, Myra Breckinridge and Hannie Caulder. There were also lots of TV appearances, from 1964 and 2017, and in the early 1980s she was on Broadway, starring on the New York stage in Woman of the Year, alongside Lauren Bacall.

https://news.sky.com/story/raquel-welch-hollywood-actress-dies-at-82-after-brief-illness-12811943

After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in her seat and closed her eyes as the train rolled out of the station. 

The guy sitting next to her, pulled out his mobile phone and started talking in a loud voice.

“Hi, sweetheart.  It's Eric.  I'm on the train. 

Yes, I know it's the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting. 

No, honey, not with that blonde from the accounts office. With the boss. 

No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life.  Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart.”

Fifteen minutes later, he was still talking loudly.

The young woman sitting next to him had had enough and leaned over and said into the phone,

“Eric, turn that phone off and come back to bed.”

Eric doesn't use his mobile phone in public any longer.