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Eddie Money was born Edward Joseph Mahoney on March 21, 1949, in New
York, USA; at the age of 16, after he was thrown out of Franklin K. Lane
High School for forging his report card, the family moved to Plainedge,
Long Island, where the budding rocker joined a local band. The son of
a New York City cop, Money continued the family tradition by attending
the New York Police Academy; but after a stint as a desk clerk, in 1968
he moved to California to pursue his music career.
With album Rock surfacing in all its glory in the late '70s, Eddie Money
was signed to Columbia Records and eagerly embraced by fans under manager
Bill Graham's tutelage. By 1977, he released his self-titled first album
which inched into the top 40 of the U.S. Pop chart and ultimately went
platinum thanks to top 20 hits such as "Baby Hold On" and "Two
Tickets To Paradise".
"Life For The Taking" followed a year later, it peaked at #17
on the Pop Albums chart spawning the magnificent hit single "Maybe
I'm A Fool" and the minor hit "Can't Keep A Good Man Down".
In 1980 "Playing For Keeps" reached the #35 position on the
U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart but wasn't as consistent as his previous
releases and the main single, "Get A Move On", didn't come close
to cracking the top 40 of the Pop chart; that year Money's high life almost
got derailed when he overdosed on alcohol and what turned out to be a
synthetic barbiturate.
His next album, 1982's "No Control", climbed into the top 20
of the Pop Albums chart and went platinum on the back of the Billboard
Hot 100 top 20 hit "Think I'm In Love" which also crossed over
to #1 on The Mainstream Rock chart; the second single, "Shakin'",
was another Mainstream Rock top 10 hit.
After the comeback of "No Control", Eddie Money produced the
lackluster "Where's The Party?", although the album replicated
the formula of its predecessor, it only reached the #67 position on The
Billboard 200 chart and generated a Mainstream Rock top 20 hit with "Big
Crash".
In 1986 the L.A.-based rocker released "Can't Hold Back" which
shot to #20 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart while the monster hit
"Take Me Home Tonight" emerged as Money's highest-charting single,
going all the way to #4 on The Billboard Hot 100, the track also held
#1 slot on The Mainstream Rock list; the second single, "I Wanna
Go Back" was equally successful as it peaked at #14 on Billboard's
Hot 100 and at #3 on Mainstream Rock charts; "We Should Be Sleeping"
reached the top 20 of The Mainstream Rock chart and the final single,
"Endless Nights" went to #21 on The Billboard Hot 100 in May
of 1987 putting sales of the album into platinum territory, the track
enjoyed generous airplay on AOR stations peaking at #10 on The Billboard
Mainstream Rock chart.
Throughout his career, Eddie Money has followed a successful album with
another record that sounded remarkably similar to its predecessor and
1988's "Nothing To Lose" was no exception to the rule. However,
this record was marginally better than "Playing For Keeps" and
"Where's The Party?", featuring a handful of well-crafted mainstream
Pop-Rock songs, including "Walk On Water" which peaked at #9
on The Billboard Hot 100 and at #2 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks; "The
Love In Your Eyes" earned Money yet another #1 Mainstream Rock hit;
"Nothing To Lose", which reached the #49 position on The Billboard
200 Albums list, yielded two more Mainstream Rock top 40 hit with "Let
Me In" and "Forget About Love".
In November 1989 the excellent retrospective "Greatest Hits - Sound
Of Money" was released, the set reached #53 on Billboard's Top 200
and the previously unreleased "Peace In Our Time" rose to #11
on The Billboard Hot 100 and to #2 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Eddie Money's eighth album of all-new music, 1991's "Right Here",
failed to make it past #160 on The Billboard 200 chart even though it
yielded the mellow ballad "I'll Get By" which hit #21 on The
Billboard Hot 100 and two Mainstream Rock top 10 hits in "She Takes
My Breath Away" and "Heaven In The Back Seat".
But the radio play waned in the early '90s and his next studio album,
"Love & Money", which was issued on Wolfgang label in May
1995, missed the charts entirely.
The veteran classic rocker signed with CMC International in 1997, releasing
the requisite live re-recording album "Shakin' With The Money Man"
that year. Two years later, he delivered "Ready Eddie", his
first collection of original material for the label.
Eddie Money are back with his new CD, "Wanna Go Back", featuring
great performances of such sixties classics as "Higher & Higher"
and "Good Lovin", just to name a few; the album also includes
the new Adult Contemporary radio single "You Don't Know Me".
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