2. Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
Described as one of the saddest songs in the history of rock music. Eric Clapton wrote “Tears in Heaven” after the death of his 4-year-old son who fell from a window of a 53rd-floor apartment in New York in 1991. After the event, Eric Clapton went into isolation, and he said that the music helped him overcome his pain.
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