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"Tears in Heaven" is a song by English guitarist, singer, and songwriter Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, written about the death of Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor. It appeared on the 1991 Rush film soundtrack .
Golden Globe Award (1991) for writing the lyrics for "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton for the film Rush and also in 1991 for writing the song "Dreams to Dream" for the motion picture An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
Clapton, 79, famously performed an acoustic version of his hit single “Tears in Heaven” for Unplugged, which aired as an MTV special and was later released as a live album.
Phoebe Bridgers mentions Clapton in "Moon Song", with the lyrics "We hate 'Tears in Heaven' / But it's sad that his baby died", a reference to the death of Clapton's child, Conor. However, the original lyric, which she sometimes performs live, is "We hate Eric Clapton" instead of "We hate 'Tears in Heaven'."
Will Jennings, Co-writer of ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ ‘Tears in Heaven’ and Other Classics, Dies at 80. Chris Willman. ... “Tears in Heaven” (performed by Eric Clapton), from the movie ...
Unplugged is a 1992 live album by Eric Clapton, recorded at Bray Studios, England in front of an audience for the MTV Unplugged television series. [3] It includes a version of the successful 1992 single "Tears in Heaven" and an acoustic version of "Layla".
His most well-known pop classics include Whitney Houston's "Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” Barry Manilow's "Looks Like We Made It," Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" and Eric Clapton's "Tears in ...
Clapton performed this track for the first time in 1992 and again in 1996, in both electric and unplugged versions. These versions of the song were completely different from the official single release in 1998. He would later retire the song in 2004, along with "Tears in Heaven", until the 50 Years Further On Up the Road world tour in 2013.