Fact #93095
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Short story:
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.
Full article:
Eric Clapton : After my son was killed ... ...it's funny, but I didn't really feel anything. I went blank. As Lori has observed, I just turned to stone, and I wanted to get away from everybody. The Italian side of the family...well, Italians are very dramatic, and it was all out in the open, this wailing and gnashing of teeth. But for me, from the way I was raised and being English, well, we go inside ourselves and keep a stiff upper lip. We pretend that we're okay, and we take care of business. But inside it's a different story.
At first I was going to do nothing. I had planned to just stay at home and reflect. That was my way of putting it, but I think it was actually wallowing. But then, after a while, I was scared that I wasn't suffering enough, and I had to go into analysis to sort that out a bit.
(Source : interview by James Henke in Rolling Stone magazine, 1991)
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At first I was going to do nothing. I had planned to just stay at home and reflect. That was my way of putting it, but I think it was actually wallowing. But then, after a while, I was scared that I wasn't suffering enough, and I had to go into analysis to sort that out a bit.
(Source : interview by James Henke in Rolling Stone magazine, 1991)