{"id":28331,"date":"2024-01-16T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-16-1992-eric-clapton-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:04:31","slug":"on-this-day-january-16-1992-eric-clapton-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-16-1992-eric-clapton-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, January 16, 1992: Eric Clapton records an episode of &#8216;MTV Unplugged&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag-10.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, January 16, 1992\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>\u00a0recorded an episode of\u00a0<em>MTV Unplugged<\/em>\u00a0in front of a small audience at Bray Film Studios in Windsor England.<\/p>\n<p>The taping featured performances of such songs as \u201cTears in Heaven,\u201d about the death of his four-year-old son,\u00a0<strong>Conor<\/strong>, and an acoustic version of \u201cLayla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clapton released a live album of the show in August 1992 to critical acclaim. The album went to #1 on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0200 chart and won three Grammy Awards, including Record and Song of the Year for \u201cTears In Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album sold 26 million copies worldwide to become the bestselling live album of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, January 16, 1992\u2026 Eric Clapton\u00a0recorded an episode of\u00a0MTV Unplugged\u00a0in front of a small audience at Bray Film Studios in Windsor England. The taping featured performances of such songs as \u201cTears in Heaven,\u201d about the death of his four-year-old son,\u00a0Conor, and an acoustic version of \u201cLayla.\u201d Clapton released<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-16-1992-eric-clapton-records-an-episode-of-mtv-unplugged\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}