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In 1993, Eric Clapton won best pop vocal performance for his top 10 hit “Tears In Heaven” at the Grammy Awards. The song not only launched his “Unplugged” album to the male Best Pop Vocal Performance slot, but it also earned him the Record of the Year Award along with Song of the Year and was used for the film "Rush." Although the song is one of the best songs Clapton has done, the story behind it is quite heartfelt. It was written about the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, Conor. The incident can only be considered a tragic accident. Clapton, who resided full time in London, was in New York when the incident happened. Conor and his mother, Lory Del Santo, were also in New York. While with his mother one day, Conor ran past a recently opened window in the apartment and fell from a window on the 53rd-floor. For nine months after the incident, Eric Clapton didn’t tour. He spent the entirety of the time processing through and mourning his son’s death. Due to the sensitivity of the subject, many say that it changed his songwriting. “Tears in Heaven” marked a new, more introspective side of Clapton than fans heard before. Eric Clapton asked Will Jennings, who he admired from working with Steve Winwood, to collaborate on the song. Jennings told Clapton that he thought the song was too personal to be co-written but ultimately agreed. Jennings claimed that it was one of the most unique experiences of writing songs that he’s had. The lyrics of the songs ask some deep questions about death. The first verse of the song jumps right into the grief Clapton was feeling with, “Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven”. This wasn’t the only song penned in honor of his son. “The Circus has left Town” was also written in Conor’s remembrance. “Tears In Heaven” became Eric Clapton’s best American single. It landed at number two on Billboard’s hot 100 and remained for 26 weeks. It also became his best American single, selling more than 2,800,000 copies between digital and physical sales. Rolling Stone listed “Tears In Heaven” on their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Despite the success, the song was seemingly only meant as a healing catharsis. Clapton announced that he would stop playing the song, along with “My Father’s Eyes” (performed for the first time on MTV Unplugged) in 2004. Luckily, the songwriter brought it back for his 50th Anniversary to share it with new fans. For more, check out: rare.us

The Bug-A-Salt salt gun is the non-toxic anti-bug, pest control weapon of the future. And the future is now. Loaded with ordinary table salt for ammo and equipped with a pop-up sight, the Bug-A-Salt gun is the worst nightmare for houseflies everywhere. This fly eradication device is the 21st-Century fly swatter and the surefire fun way to make a disgusting task enjoyable and to get rid of pesky flies in your home or at your BBQ. (Plus it's an easy cleanup.) So toss out that loud, annoying, filthy bug zapper you freakin' rednecks. The Bug-A-Salt gun shoots a shotgun spray of regular table salt at the targets. Though it shoots just a pinch of salt, the blast is strong enough to knock out common houseflies for good. Reloading requires a simple pump of the gun to put a new pile of salt into the chamber. But can this bug gun take out other pesky pests? Scarier bugs than a black fly? Like wasps and hornets? Rare senior writer Rob Fox decided to find out. With the original salt gun's next-gen model, the Bug-A-Salt 2.0, in hand and a flourishing wasp nest growing on the side of his house, Fox (plus two cameramen who absolutely did not want to be there) decided to see if the Bug-A-Salt gun could take out some angry wasps. Having made peace with the idea of getting mercilessly stung by furious wasps Fox locked and loaded the Bug-A-Salt and prepared for his first foray into amateur pest extermination. (Always a great idea.) Though things didn't go quite as planned the Bug-A-Salt gun still proved effective at times. But effective enough to keep you safe from on oncoming wasp that wants nothing more than for you to get the hell away from its home? Find out. FIND MORE GREAT CONTENT AT: rare.us

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