His Songs Were Standards on Top 40 Stations Worldwide

Friday the Money family announced his passing. He had been in a fight with esophageal cancer. He was diagnosed with stage IV last year, but only disclosed the fact a month ago. He was also in the hospital earlier this year for a heart valve procedure.

His hits include “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Baby Hold On”, which peaked on the charts of the late 70s. Born Edward Joeseph Mahoney on March 21, 1949 in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eddie was the son of a policeman there. After High School, Eddie did 2 years as a legacy cop and decided that kind of life was not for him.

Eddie Money

Striking out on his own, he started his musical career in the turbulent 60s. He saw some minor sucesses with small bands until changing his name to Money in 1975 and hooking up with popular Bay Area promoter Bill Graham. He made his first major album in 1977 and never looked back. He started a rapid climb to stardom and fell prey to the accompanying weaknesses that sometimes plague it.

How He Survived, He Didnt Know

Eddie admitted to most of the stereotypical Hollywood celebrity lifestyle bad choices. A bad experience ocurred involving snorting a random powder off a mirror in 1982 (barbituates it turned out, not cocaine) which made him reconsider many things. He laid in one position on his leg as he dozed off for 14 hours, injuring a nerve badly and affecting his kidney function.

Towards the end of the 80s on he focused more efforts on his familly though didn’t totally give up his music. In 1995 he published a relatively successful comeback album. I personally saw him in 1997 as the entertainent for a Jaycees National Convention in Niagra falls. He looked a bit fried out, but rocked hard. He will be missed by music fans and family (wife and four children).