Biography

She was wife of the late Felix Pappalardi

Felix Pappalardi

Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass guitarist.- Early life :Pappalardi was born in the Bronx, New York...

. She contributed lyrics to many Mountain

Mountain (band)

Mountain is an American hard rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist Felix Pappalardi and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 before reuniting in 1974 and remaining active until today...

 songs and co-wrote Cream

Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker...

's "World of Pain" with Pappalardi and "Strange Brew" with Pappalardi and Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

. As Gail Collins, her artwork appears on the album covers, "Mountain Climbing" and "Nantucket Sleighride," along with "Live-The Road Goes Ever On" and "Twin Peaks" and "Avalanche."

On April 17, 1983, Felix Pappalardi was shot once in the neck in their fifth-floor East Side

East Side

-Municipalities:* East Side Township, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States* East Side, Pennsylvania, United States- Canada :* Eastside, Ontario, a neighborhood in Sault Ste...

 Manhattan apartment. He was pronounced dead at the scene and Gail was charged with second degree murder. At the age of 43, Gail Collins Pappalardi was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter, but found guilty of criminally negligent homicide. She was released on parole on April 30, 1985.

Gail Collins, as of 2009, is living quietly in Mexico. She maintains the shooting of her husband was an accident.