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May 6, 2020 · After Clapton's 4-year-old son accidentally fell out of a window to his death, the musician turned his grief into the heart-wrenching ballad.
Conor, the four-year-old son of music legend Eric Clapton and Italian actress Lory del Santo, fell to his death from a window in New York in 1991. Clapton wrote two iconic songs, Circus Left Town and Tears in Heaven, in response to the devastating loss.
Mar 21, 1991 · The 4 1/2-year-old son of the rock guitarist Eric Clapton was killed yesterday morning when he fell out an open bedroom window on the 53d floor of a Manhattan apartment building.
Mar 20, 2015 · Eric Clapton's 4 1/2-year-old son Conor died on March 20, 1991 after falling out of an open window in a New York City high-rise.
On 20 March 1991, Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, whom he had with Lory Del Santo, died after falling from the 53rd-floor window of a New York City apartment belonging to a friend of Conor’s mother.
Oct 28, 2018 · Conor Clapton was a four-year-old boy who fell to his death from a 53rd floor apartment in 1991. His father, the legendary guitarist Eric Clapton, wrote the songs Tears in Heaven and Circus Left Town to honour his memory.
Oct 12, 2007 · Eric Clapton won a Grammy for his poignant tribute to his four-year-old son Connor, who died tragically in Manhattan in 1991 after falling out of a window of a high-rise building.
