Eric Clapton, "Tears In Heaven"

[tico]

Though this song was way too sorrowful for my tastes, I couldn't help but to feel for Eric. He wrote this after the tragic death of his young son in 1991 and it became a smash hit. I'm sure any parent who's lost a child, especially at such a young age, could relate to this.

[snoman]

Beautiful song. It always gets to me. :'(

[Hervard]

To this day, I still can't listen to this. Even when it's played on AT10 as an extra or a Long Distance Dedication, I turn the radio off for a few minutes until it's over. I loved it back in the day, though.

[Deleted]

I'm so sick of it but I like it.

[WhySoSerious?]

I hated this song so much when it was out. I can tolerate it now.

[stevie nice]

There's no tragedy too great out there that you can't run out and make a buck off it. Hope Clapton installed child protection gates on his windows with the royalties.

[cartman2002]

This tune reached #2 for Slowhand in 1992 and he won several Grammys for the tune but was kept off the top spot in the US charts by Vanessa Williams' "Save The Best For Last".

If he did it would have been his second #1 hit along with "I Shot The Sheriff"

[shocker]

Very sad song indeed. But it was well-written, and the backing instrumentation was very well-done.

Sounded somewhat countryish in nature. In fact, I was really surprised that this didn't hit the country chart - especially since Clapton's "Lay Down Sally" was played pretty heavily on country stations in the '70s.

[disman00911]

His best 1990s song though I never realized how tragic it really was.  Often heard on the adult contemporary stations of the period (such as 93.9 Lite FM in my market).  I'm pretty sure WXRT played it as well.

[Ernesto]

29 years ago today, "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton started a 4-week run at its No.2 peak position on the Hot 100 Singles chart. Three weeks later, "Tears" reached No.1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and held onto to the top for 3 weeks. Clapton wrote the song with Will Jennings about the death of his 4-year-old son, Conor. "Tears" was released as the first single from the soundtrack to the 1991 film "Rush." And it won the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Male Vocal Performance in 1993.

[dbhmr]

Jul 15, 2004 11:59:38 GMT -5 stevie nice said:

There's no tragedy too great out there that you can't run out and make a buck off it. Hope Clapton installed child protection gates on his windows with the royalties.

I didn't think it was possible to be infuriated with a 17-year-old comment but here I am.

[jodakyellow]

Phoebe Bridgers put it as simply an accurately as possible in the lyrics of “Moon Song:”

“We hate Tears in Heaven
But it’s sad that his baby died”

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It’s a pedestrian and mediocre little song, which takes nothing away from how tragic its origin is or Clapton’s genuine emotions