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”When they left, I had this little Spanish string guitar, I became attached to that. I went off to Antigua and I rented a little cottage there in a community and I just swatted mosquitos all day and played this guitar and stayed there for almost a whole year, without much contact with the outside world, and I tried to heal myself,” he shared.
During that time, music became his refuge. He played and rewrote songs over and over, searching for some kind of emotional release. “All I could do was play and write these songs and I re-wrote and re-performed them again and again and again and again until I felt like I had made some sort of move towards the surface of my being and then I was able to come out,” Clapton recalled.
A letter from Conor
Eventually, he channeled his sorrow into music, co-writing Tears in Heaven with Will Jennings. The song, originally written for a film soundtrack, became one of his most emotional and personal works — a way to process his loss and keep Conor’s memory alive.