Eric Clapton Encyclopedia

Grammy Awards: Tears In Heaven


Grammy Awards: Tears In Heaven

Entry published in Awards / Last modified on 3 March 2007

In 1992, Eric Clapton was honoured with six Grammy Awards. Three of them were for the song, “Tears In Heaven”, from the Rush film soundtrack. The awards were:

Record Of The Year - Awarded to Clapton and Russ Titelman, producer

Song Of The Year - Awarded to Clapton and Will Jennings, composers

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

Eric’s other awards that year were for his live CD, Unplugged . They were:

Album Of The Year - Awarded to Clapton and Russ Titelman, producer

Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (In some years, the Recording Academy lists a specific song by an artist in this category. In other years, they list an album title)

Best Rock Song for “Layla” - Awarded to Clapton and Jim Gordon