Of all the songs in Eric Clapton’s extensive repertoire, Tears in Heaven is perhaps the most moving – and certainly one of the best known.
From the outset, the guitar icon made no secret of the fact that the 1991 track held special meaning, having written it as a lament following the tragic death of his four-year-old son, Conor, that same year. Clapton himself has described the song as “so personal and so sad... it is unique in my experience of writing songs.”
