In January 2010, he performed a medley of his hit singles during the halftime performance at the Liberty Bowl. Money was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008. In 1996, he wrote the theme music to Quack Pack, a Disney cartoon. īeginning in 1992, Money opened the summer concert season for the Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan. 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". " I Wanna Go Back" and "Endless Nights"-two other singles from the Can't Hold Back album-peaked at No. In 1987, Money was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight". 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. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. " Take Me Home Tonight", a single from the album, peaked at No. 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. In 19, he appeared on American Bandstand. In the early 1980s, he appeared on The Midnight Special, Fridays, and Solid Gold. 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 2014, Money claimed that Loggins never gave him credit for his contribution.
The following year, he sang backing vocals on the bridge section on " I'm Alright", a song written and performed by Kenny Loggins. In 1978, Money opened for Santana at Boston's Music Hall. He charted with singles such as " Baby Hold On" and " Two Tickets to Paradise", about visiting his girlfriend despite not having money. After gaining the attention of Bill Graham, he secured a recording contract with Columbia Records, releasing his debut album in 1977. Money became a regular performer at clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, he studied with vocal coach Judy Davis, and took on the stage name Eddie Money, dropping a few letters from his name and sarcastically referencing the fact that he was always broke. In 1968, Money moved to Berkeley, California. His father was not happy with the decision to play music and tore the Jimi Hendrix posters from his wall. His bandmates also fired him because they did not want a police officer in the group. "I couldn't see myself in a police uniform for 20 years of my life, with short hair," he later said. However, after working as a clerk and typist, he left in 1968 to pursue a career in music, as the police did not allow him to grow his hair long. Īt the age of 18, he tried to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, father, and brother as a New York City Police Department trainee. In 1967, he graduated from Island Trees High School. He was thrown out of one high school for forging a report card. As a teenager, he played in rock bands, in part to get dates from cheerleaders. Money was a street singer since the age of 11.
He grew up in Levittown, New York, but spent some teenage years in Woodhaven, Queens. His parents were Dorothy Elizabeth ( née Keller), a homemaker, and Daniel Patrick Mahoney, a police officer. Edward Joseph Mahoney was born in Brooklyn, New York City on March 21, 1949, to a large family of Irish Catholics.
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