The history of Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven

Tears in Heaven was written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991.

Connor was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress Lori Del Santo, and were staying in the apartment during a visit to New York from Italy. Clapton was also in New York at the timne, staying at a nearby hotel

Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident was visibly distraught for months afterwards, and did not perform for around nine months. When he did eventully return, his music had noticibly changed, becoming softer and more reflective.

Tears in Heaven is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US.

Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven was also included on the Grammy award-winning album, Unplugged. It is #353 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs.

The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.

The song was initially featured on the soundtrack to the film Rush and it won three Grammy awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1993.

Eric Clapton stopped performing Tears in Heaven in 2004, in an interview at the time he said;

"I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs. I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them. They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is different now. They probably just need a rest and maybe I'll introduce them for a much more detached point of view."

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