ERIC CLAPTON - CLAPTON STOPS SINGING ABOUT LATE SON

Rocker ERIC CLAPTON has decided to give up performing two songs he wrote about his late son CONOR at concerts - possibly for good.

When the guitar legend appeared in a series of concerts in Japan late last year (03), he admits his couldn't bring himself to perform TEARS IN HEAVEN and MY FATHER'S EYES - both GRAMMY winning tracks dealing with the loss of four-year-old Conor, who died when he fell from a New York apartment in 1991.

He says, "I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs. I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them.

"They're kind of gone, and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is a different life now."

Clapton admits he'd feel conflicted singing the songs at a time when he's happy, adding, "They probably need a rest, and maybe I'll introduce them from a much more detached point of view."