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Conor Clapton, the four-year-old son of guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, falls to his death from a 53rd-story window in Galleria Condominiums, an apartment block in Manhattan, New York City, USA. The boy was staying in the apartment block with his mother, the actress Lori Del Santo. Clapton will write the song Tears In Heaven, in memory of Conor.
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Guitarist Billy Butler dies of a heart attack, aged 66, at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. In an acclaimed career, Butler led his own band but also worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet and Gene Ammons to name only a few. He is perhaps best-known as co-writer of the massive 1956 hit Honky Tonk with Bill Doggett.
