Clapton Wipes Away
Bluesman Eric Clapton recently said that that he could no longer perform tow of his best known songs: "Tears in Heaven" and "My Father's Eyes." Both songs are about the loss of his four-year-old son Conner, who died in 1991 when he fell from a window in the musician's New York apartment. Clapton realized that he could no longer put himself into the songs at a string of recent concerts in Japan: "I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs," Clapton said. "I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them. They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is a different life now." (Arrow FM)