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Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
Written by Joel Selvin
Narrated by David Bendena
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This account of the greatest rock drummer of all time, Jim Gordon, is an epic journey through his life and a rollicking history of rock drumming.
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Joel Selvin
Joel Selvin is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor, with Sammy Hagar, of the number-one New York Times bestseller, Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music.
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