Does Eric Clapton's song "Tear's in Heaven" have a personal meaning tied in to it?

Question

I had heard that this song was writting for his son... is this true, and if so, why?

Answer 1

his son died. I think he fell out of a window

Answer 2

Yeah. It was written for his four and a half year old son, Connor Clapton. Connor fell from the 53rd floor of his mother's apartment to his death in a freak accident.(The apartment had no window guards and the cleaner had opened windows to clean them.Connor just ran out the window.) Eric Clapton was close to his son because it was the way, he said, he came closest to knowing the father he never had.After Connor's death, Eric Clapton went into depression and during his healing process, came this beautiful song- Tears in Heaven.

Answer 3

Eric Clapton's son was killed in a freak accident he fell out of a high rise window onto the pavement below. Yes Tears in Heaven was written for his son.

Answer 4

Yes. His son died crawling out of a window. He was very young.
I got this from http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/tears.htm

On 20 March 1991 at 11 a.m., four-and-a-half-year-old Conor Clapton died when he fell from a 53rd-story window in a New York City apartment. He landed on the roof of an adjacent four-story building.

Conor was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress Lori Del Santo, and they were staying in the apartment during a visit to New York from Italy. The boy's father, Eric Clapton, was also in New York (his permanent home is in Surrey, England) and was staying at a nearby hotel at the time of the tragedy. Clapton and Del Santo never wed. (Eric was married to Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's former wife, at the time of Conor's August 1986 birth). Clapton has another child, Ruth Kelly, born in January, 1985, to Yvonne Khan Kelly (also during Clapton's marriage to Boyd).

The death of Conor Clapton was one of those accidents that seem so preventable with hindsight yet aren't imaginable until they happen. The housekeeper had just finished cleaning the window and left it open to air the room when Conor ran past him and fell out the 4-by-6 opening. By law, New York City apartments must have window guards installed on every window in all residential buildings with three or more tenants, but a 1984 ruling exempted condominiums from this regulation, placing the onus upon the owners of such units to install such safety devices. The apartment Del Santos and her son were staying in was a condo unit, thus the window Conor fell through lacked a guard.

The death of his son had a deep impact on Eric Clapton. For nine months the grieving father concentrated on coming to terms with his loss rather than on performing. When he returned to the stage, his music had changed, becoming softer, more powerful, and more reflective. "Tears in Heaven" (composed by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings) was Clapton's way of pouring his grief and growing acceptance of Conor's loss into his music. The song was created for the 1991 film Rush, but in truth it was always about Conor -- whatever Clapton was feeling was bound to come out in whatever he wrote. At the 1993 Grammy Awards, Clapton's recording of "Tears in Heaven" won the award for Best Pop Vocal Performance (Male Category), garnered Song of the Year honors for Clapton, and helped propel his "Unplugged" album into the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance spot and the winner's circle for the coveted Album of the Year prize.

Answer 5

I dont know if true or not. Just that his son happen to die the same time. Look like Eric Clapton's song always get famous when something happen surround him.

Answer 6

His 4 1/2 year old son, Conor, fell out the window of his ex girlfriend's apartment in NYC. The child was killed instantly. About a year later his ex GF committed suicide.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/tears.htm

Answer 7

You have the correct answer by now... he also wrote another song about the same incident called The Circus Left Town because the last thing he ever did with Connor was to take him to the circus the night before he died.

Answer 8

Its a song about his son. Apparently his son fell out of a tall building and died.

Answer 9

I have always heard that he wrote that song after his 4 year old son accidently fell to his death from an upstairs window.

Answer 10

He wrote it about his 4 year-old son who fell out a window on the 53rd floor.

Answer 11

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