A Song About the Unthinkable
“Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?”
Eric Clapton’s most famous song was heard for the first time in 1991, the same year the tragedy that inspired the song took place. Conor, his four-year-old son, died on March 20, 1991, when he accidentally fell out of the 53rd-floor window of the New York City apartment building he was living in with his mother.
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A song with such meaning, heartache, and emotion could only be created by someone who experienced something incredibly heavy. Losing Conor brought Clapton to his knees, but like most musicians, he took his pen to his paper and created a song that became his most popular.