Eric Clapton's son Conor Clapton tragically died in 1991 after accidentally falling out of the window of a 53rd-floor apartment in New York Metropolis.

The harrowing incident was the inspiration behind Clapton's popular song, 'Tears in Heaven' and also caused the vocalist to isolate himself from the rest of the world while he processed the heartbreaking tragedy.

In a recent interview on BBC Radio, Clapton has shared some insight into how he dealt with the horrible event.

"I had, I brought him [Clapton's son] abode from New York with the Italian side of his female parent's family, and we went through the process of the funeral, and when they left.

"And that I had this little Spanish guitar, I became attached to that. And I went away. I went off to Antigua, and I rented a little cottage there, in a sort of a customs.

"And I just swatted mosquitoes all day and played this guitar and stayed at that place for almost a whole year without much contact with the outside world."

While isolating himself from the rest of the world, Clapton explained the process of writing 'Tears in Heaven' for Conor.

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"I tried to heal myself, and all I could exercise was play and write these songs, and I rewrote and re-performed them again and again and again until I felt similar I'd fabricated some sort of motion towards the surface of my being.

"So I was able to come out. Information technology was so deep, and I had thought that I had taken intendance of information technology until I saw [the 2018 movie] 'Life in 12 Confined.'

"And it's very disturbing for me, but cute at the same time, the manner it's handled in the film. The footage I haven't seen of him before, which is difficult to scout, with the underlying music.

"And playing 'Tears in Heaven,' I mean, information technology's overwhelming, and I've got to become and do it again in a few days' time."

At the fourth dimension of his death, Conor was at his female parent's flat and climbed out a window that had been inadvertently left open following janitorial work in the flat.

"The first I knew was a phone telephone call from their apartment," Clapton recalled in a 1992 interview with British announcer Sue Lawley.

"I was actually getting set up to go out of the hotel room to go and pick him up for lunch. Lory was on the other end of the phone, and she was hysterical, saying he was expressionless. And I could not permit myself believe it."

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