Are you forgetting Tears in Heaven, written about his son Connor who was tragically killed by falling out of a window?
Wasn’t that around the same time Unplugged came out? And didn’t it have a major motion picture tie-in? And didn’t it also have a sad back story to use it to sell to the gullible record buying public?
If Eric hadn’t been such a drunken womanizer, perhaps his kid would not have met such a tragic end.