For the TV series, see Tears in Heaven (TV series).
"Tears in Heaven"
Single by Eric Clapton
from the album Rush: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
B-side
"Tracks and Lines"
Released
8 January 1992
Recorded
1991
Genre
Soft rock[1]
Length
4:36
Label
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Eric Clapton
Will Jennings
Producer(s)
Russ Titelman
Eric Clapton singles chronology
"Wonderful Tonight (live)" (1991)
"Tears in Heaven" (1992)
"It's Probably Me" (1992)
Music video
"Tears in Heaven" on YouTube
"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. In January 1992, Clapton performed the song in front of an audience at Bray Studios, Berkshire, England for MTV Unplugged, with the recording appearing on his Unplugged album.
The song was Clapton's best-selling single in the United States and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, where Clapton is from, it reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, and also charted in the top 10 in more than twenty nations around the world. It won three Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Tears in Heaven" 353rd on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
^Smith, Chris (2006). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: From Arenas to the Underground, 1974–1980. Greenwood Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-313-32937-0.
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