Tears in Heaven is a soft rock ballad by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, released in 1992 as a single from the Rush: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack. The song was written about Clapton’s four-year-old son Conor, who died in 1991 after a fall from a New York City apartment window. Clapton wrote the first verse and Jennings completed the rest; it was written for the Rush film and later performed live for MTV Unplugged at Bray Studios in January 1992, with that version appearing on the Unplugged album. It became Clapton’s best selling US single, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 5 in the UK, and it won three Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone later ranked Tears in Heaven among The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The track runs 4 minutes and 36 seconds and features gentle guitar work and intimate, healing lyrics about loss and resilience.
