Eddie Money, 'Two Tickets to Paradise' Singer, Dies at 70

[alp227]

Source: Variety

Eddie Money, the prolific singer and songwriter whose songs “Baby Hold On,” “Two Tickets to Paradise,” “Shakin'” and “Take Me Home Tonight” soundtracked popular music in the 1980s, died Friday (Sept. 13). He was 70.

A statement provided by his family reads: “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.”

Money recently revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer.

Read more: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/eddie-money-dead-dies-1203334855/

[mac56]

1. Very sad.

He was remarkably prolific, and enjoyed poking fun at himself.

Godspeed, sir.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I'll remember him most for his cameo on the King of Queens.

[Coventina]

4. I'm sorry to hear this.

Even though I loathed "Take Me Home Tonight."

[mac56]

5. "Think I'm In Love"

[susanna]

22. Never realized how much of a soundtrack he was to my younger life...

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This particular song - and I remember it clearly - I was in the gym bleachers watching the pom-pom girls from my school at the homecoming assembly my Junior year. I was, oh, maybe 16-17? I was a cheerleader and we had just finished our little show lol.

I remember it all like it was yesterday - I can still see the routine and remember this song being a part of it. I'm 52 now. Behold, the power of music. RIP, Eddie.



on edit: the RIP I meant to post

[MissMillie]

6. RIP, Eddie

I'll be "Shakin'" to your sound forever.

[mulsh]

7. My brother and I rented his former apartment in Oakland right after he moved out. We

had a steady stream of his clients from his former avocation visiting us in the middle of the night every few days. WE knew Eddy when he was just getting started, saw him go from playing at CAL Frats to Arenas. When he was sober he was a hell of a guy. He wasn't too bad when he was stoned. RiP

[mulsh]

14. It's still there, converted into a condo after we moved out. Eddie's rent was around $175//m

ours was 225/mo for a two bedroom upper floor of a duplex in Oakland's Rockridge (affluent) District. It was a great apartment even though we discovered parts were about to collapse, in a wonderful neighborhood.

The people who bought it and evicted us dumped a lot of money, but refurbished rather than remodeled so they ended up with a nice craftsman duplex they could charge a lot of rent for. A couple of years later they converted the units to condos and cashed in. The condos have only been listed once, ours was around $150k. 2 bedrooms, large living/dining room, wonderfully large kitchen with the biggest Wedgewood stove I've ever seen.

Next time its listed it will probably be around 1mil, that's how much real estate has gone up since the early 1980's in that part of beautiful Oakland.

Last time I ran into Edward we traded stories about that place. That was about 10 years ago.

[RobinA]

8. Oh Boy

I big part of the soundtrack of my college years.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. Shakin' the original video

[PBC_Democrat]

12. I hope he got ...

One Ticket to Paradise

[Maxheader]

13. Rip Eddie...

Been listening to you on the radio for years....

[redstateblues]

16. He was great playing himself in "The Kaminski Method"

Rock On Brother"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. So sad

He was one of my favorites back in the day

[PhoenixDem]

18. I loved his "Take me home tonight"

RIP

[orangecrush]

19. ...

[JohnnyRingo]

20. I bought an Eddie Money vinyl album at a garage sale today.

Along with three others for $2 each. I informed the woman that he died today and added that the record is probably worth $2.50 now. Instead, I got her to toss in a couple Halloween decorations for free.

I thought it Ironic that the album was "Life For The Taking".

[Polybius]

21. "Take Me Home Tonight" was his best song

One of the best 80's songs period. RIP.