26 Facts About Eddie Money

Eddie Money's parents were Dorothy Elizabeth, a homemaker, and Daniel Patrick Mahoney, a police officer.

Eddie Money grew up in Levittown, New York, but spent some teenage years in Woodhaven, Queens.

Eddie Money was thrown out of one high school for forging a report card.

Eddie Money's bandmates fired him because they did not want a police officer in the group.

Eddie Money's father was not happy with his decision to play music and tore the Jimi Hendrix posters from his wall.

Eddie Money charted with singles such as "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise", about visiting his girlfriend despite not having money.

In 1978, Eddie Money opened for Santana at Boston's Music Hall.

In 2014, Eddie Money claimed that Loggins never gave him credit for his contribution.

Eddie Money's career began to decline following an unsuccessful 1983 album However, he made a comeback in 1986 with the album Can't Hold Back, which received a music recording certification of platinum.

In 1987, Eddie Money was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight".

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

Eddie Money was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

Eddie Money wrote and performed original songs for the films Americathon, Over the Top, Back to the Beach, and Kuffs, along with the television series Hardball.

In 1997, he appeared in Wonderland, a documentary film about Levittown, New York, where Eddie Money went to high school.

Eddie Money played a fictionalized version of himself on a 1999 episode of season 5 of The Drew Carey Show.

In October 2011, Eddie Money became the host of "Eddie Money in the Morning", a radio show on WSRV.

Eddie Money 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, Eddie Money partnered with Howard Perl Entertainment, MTV VJ Nina Blackwood, and Hard Rock Rocksino to produce "Eddie 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.

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

In 1980, after drinking vodka, Eddie Money overdosed on a synthetic barbiturate that he mistook for cocaine.

On Valentine's Day 1984 in Moraga, California, Eddie Money married Margo Lee Walker, a student from Los Angeles.

In March 2000, Eddie Money purchased a home in Westlake Village, California, where he lived with his family.

At one point in the early 2000s, Eddie Money had a home in Island Estates, a gated community in Palm Coast, Florida, which he called "my place to play golf, be creative, go fishing, go surfing and have fun".

In 2001, Eddie Money joined a 12-step program to deal with his drinking and made a promise to his wife and children that he would change.

In July 2019, Eddie Money underwent a minimally invasive heart valve replacement surgery and developed pneumonia, causing him to cancel tour dates.