Eddie Money

Rock Singer

Eddie Money was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on March 21st, 1949 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 70, Eddie Money biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Edward Joseph Mahoney
Date of Birth
March 21, 1949
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Death Date
Sep 13, 2019 (age 70)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Networth
$10 Million
Profession
Actor, Composer, Guitarist, Musician, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Television Actor
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Eddie Money Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 70 years old, Eddie Money has this physical status:

Height
180cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Light brown
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Average
Measurements
Not Available
Eddie Money Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Island Trees High School, Levittown, Long Island, New York
Eddie Money Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Margo Lee Walker ​(m. 1984)​, Laurie Harris ​(m. 1989)​
Children
5
Dating / Affair
Connie Hamzy, Lauri Money
Parents
Not Available
Eddie Money Life

Edward Joseph Mahoney (March 21, 1949 – September 13, 2019), better known as Eddie Money, was an American rock singer and songwriter who performed well in the 1970s and 1980s, with "Baby Hold On," "Think I'm in Love," "Shakin," "I Want to Go Back," "I Want to See You," "Walk on Water," and "The Love in Your Eyes" among others.

Money was regarded as a working-class rocker with a husky voice.

He was nominated for the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Award in 1987 for his role on "Take Me Home Tonight."

Early life

Edward Joseph Mahoney was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on March 21, 1949, to a large family of Irish Catholics. Dorothy Elizabeth (née Keller), a homemaker, and Daniel Patrick Mahoney, a police officer, were among his parents. He grew up in Levittown, New York, but he spent some teenage years in Woodhaven, Queens. Before, he was a street performer at the age of 11. He performed in rock bands as a youth in part to get dates from cheerleaders. Forging a report card, he was suspended from one high school. He graduated from Island Trees High School in 1967.

As a New York City Police Department student at the age of 18, he tried to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, father, and brother. However, after serving as a clerk and typist, he left in 1968 to pursue a career in music, but the police did not encourage him to grow his hair long. "I couldn't imagine myself in a police uniform for 20 years of my life, with short hair," he later said. His coworkers also fired him because the company did not want a police officer in the group. His father was dissatisfied with his decision to play music and tore the Jimi Hendrix posters from his wall.

In 1968, money moved to Berkeley, California. He studied with vocal coach Judy Davis and took on the stage name Eddie Money, omitting a few letters from his name and sarcastically referring to the fact that he was always broke.

Personal life and death

Money overdosed on a synthetic barbiturate that he mistook for cocaine in 1980 after enjoying vodka. He suffered damage to his left leg's sciatic nerve and was unable to walk for months and had a permanent limp afterwards.

Margo Lee Walker, a Los Angeles student, was married on Valentine's Day 1984. "But a crowd of screaming teenage supporters appeared at the wedding to keep it private," he and his bride attempted to keep it private.

Laurie Harris married Laurie Harris in 1989. They had five children together: Zachary, Jessica, Joseph, Julian, and Desmond. They were married for 30 years and had renewed their vows three months before his death.

Money purchased a house in Westlake Village, California, where he and his family lived. Money had a home in Island Estates, a gated neighborhood in Palm Coast, Florida, that he described as "my place to play golf, be innovative, go fishing, and have fun" at one time in the early 2000s.

In 2001, Money began a 12-step program to deal with his binge drinking, as well as a promise to his wife and children that he would change. He was clean and sober in 2003.

In July 2019, Money underwent minimally invasive heart valve replacement surgery and pneumonia, causing him to cancel tour dates. He had been a cigarette smoker for years. He revealed on August 24, 2019, that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He died at Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles on September 13, 2019, age 70, as a result of complications from the cancer. His family brought a lawsuit alleging wrongful death against the hospital a year later, as well as an allegation of medical negligence.

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Eddie Money Career

Career

Money became a regular performer at clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. After gaining the attention of Bill Graham, he secured a recording contract with Columbia Records, releasing his debut album in 1977. He charted with singles such as "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise", about visiting his girlfriend despite not having money.

In 1978, Money opened for Santana at Boston's Music Hall. The following year, he sang backing vocals on the bridge section on "I'm Alright", a song written and performed by Kenny Loggins. In 2014, Money claimed that Loggins never gave him credit for his contribution.

In 1982, Money took advantage of the MTV music video scene with his humorous narrative videos for "Think I'm in Love", performed at The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, and "Shakin'". In the early 1980s, he appeared on The Midnight Special, Fridays, and Solid Gold. In 1978 and 1984, he appeared on American Bandstand.

Money's career began to decline following an unsuccessful 1983 album (Where's the Party?) However, he made a comeback in 1986 with the album Can't Hold Back, which received a music recording certification of platinum. "Take Me Home Tonight", a single from the album, peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Money only agreed to perform the song—which included a line from "Be My Baby", a song Ronnie Spector performed as part of The Ronettes—after Spector agreed to sing the line herself. In 1987, Money was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight". "I Wanna Go Back" and "Endless Nights"—two other singles from the Can't Hold Back album—peaked at No. 14 and No. 21, respectively.

In 1988, Money released Nothing to Lose, which featured the Top 10 hit "Walk on Water" and the Top 40 hit "The Love in Your Eyes".

Beginning in 1992, Money opened the summer concert season for the Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan. In 1996, he wrote the theme music to Quack Pack, a Disney cartoon.

Money was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008. In January 2010, he performed a medley of his hit singles during the halftime performance at the Liberty Bowl.

Money wrote and performed original songs for the films Americathon (1979), Over the Top, Back to the Beach (both 1987), and Kuffs (1992), along with the television series Hardball (1989–1990).

In the three days following Money's death, fans streamed "Take Me Home Tonight" more than 3.1 million times, which was an increase of 349% compared to the previous three-day period. Fans also streamed his other songs by 931% more than the three previous days.

Money made several screen appearances.

In 1997, he appeared in Wonderland, a documentary film about Levittown, New York, where Money went to high school. In the film, he said if he had "two tickets to paradise, I'd probably get back to Levittown".

Money played a fictionalized version of himself on a 1999 episode of season 5 of The Drew Carey Show. In the episode, he had been Mimi's first husband early in his career and they never made their divorce official. In May 2002, he played himself on an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens.

In October 2011, Money became the host of "Money in the Morning", a radio show on WSRV. The gig lasted about three months. He appeared in a 2012 GEICO insurance commercial in which he is depicted as a travel agency owner who sings "Two Tickets to Paradise" to a family that wants tickets for a vacation.

In January 2016, Money partnered with Howard Perl Entertainment, MTV VJ Nina Blackwood, and Hard Rock Rocksino to produce "Money for the Animals", a show designed to raise funds and adopt rescue animals in need.

In 2018, Money appeared in episode 6 of The Kominsky Method as a fictionalized version of himself who is indebted to the Internal Revenue Service and portrays the character Freddie Money in an eponymous tribute act at a casino to avoid further tax problems.

On April 8, 2018, Real Money, a reality television series about Money and his family, debuted on AXS TV. An episode sharing his cancer diagnosis aired on AXS TV the day before he died. The show's second season was expected to follow Money's "journey as he tells his family about the disease and undergoes treatment."

In late April 2018, Weekly Alibi's August March interviewed Money, who waxed poetic about his career, his family and his new television show.

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