Eddie Money, whose string of rock hits in the late 1970s and ’80s included “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 70.

His family announced the death in a statement. Mr. Money, whose birth name was Edward Mahoney, announced last month that he had stage 4 esophageal cancer.

He and his family have been the focus of a reality television show on AXS TV, “Real Money.” The episode in which he learns he has cancer was broadcast the night before he died.