"%22Tears in Heaven%22 is a song by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, from the 1991 Rush film soundtrack. The song was written about the pain and loss Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor. Conor fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment building owned by his mother's friend on March 20, 1991. Clapton arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident." . "1992 singles" . . "Songs inspired by deaths" . "Oricon International Singles Chart number-one singles" . "2"^^ . "-0.308564"^^ . "1992-01-16" . "280000.0"^^ . "Late 1991" . "c5a9a5a1-36a7-4d28-8c7f-0867206ba9da" . "1992-01-16" . . "1992 songs" . "Soft rock songs" . "Platinum" . . "-0.374378"^^ . . "live, 1992-01-16: Bray Film Studios, Windsor, England" . "Grammy Award for Record of the Year" . "Russ Titelman" . "Gramophone record" . . "Grammy Award for Song of the Year" . "Songs with lyrics by Will Jennings" . . "MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video" . "Will Jennings" . "5714decf25ac0d8aee413863" . "Compact Cassette" . "Gold" . . "677336" . . "Warner Bros. Records singles" . "TRVYICQ128F4252493" . "Eric Clapton songs" . "Tears In Heaven" . "Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles" . "RPM Top Singles number-one singles" . "3"^^ . "Warner Bros. Records" . . . "Song recordings produced by Russ Titelman" . . "true"^^ . . "Number-one singles in New Zealand" . "Singles certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America" . "true"^^ . "english" . "1992-01-07"^^ . "USRE11300314" . "765834"^^ . "Singles certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America" . . "Songs in memory of deceased persons" . "Eric Clapton" . "Tears In Heaven" . "false"^^ . . "Compact disc" . . "2005-03-22"^^ . "-15.1"^^ . "192" . "eng" . "157.0"^^ .