Eddie Money is dead at age 70, his family announced Friday morning.

Variety reports Money died Friday, Sept. 13, after a battle with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He had taken time off from performing due to other health issues, including developing pneumonia while recovering from heart valve surgery.

“The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music," his family said in a statement.

Money was best known for ’70s and ’80s hits like “Take Me Home Tonight," “Shakin'” and “Two Tickets to Paradise.” He released 11 albums throughout his career, spoofed his own hits in TV commercials, and recently appeared in his own reality TV show “Real Money” on AXS TV.

"I thought I was going in for a check-up and [the doctor] told me I have cancer,” Money said of his cancer diagnosis in an episode that aired Thursday night. “We found out that I had cancer and that it was stage 4 and that it was in my liver and my lymph nodes and a little bit in my stomach… It hit me really, really hard.”

Money, whose real name was Edward Mahoney, performed in Central New York many times over the years. He played the Jamesville Balloonfest in 2013, Syracuse’s Palace Theater in 2015, and the New York State Fair’s Experience Stage in 2018.

Season 2 of “Real Money” was expected to chronicle Money’s attempt to return to performing.