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Rock star Eddie Money, a raspy voiced singer known for hit songs like “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” died Friday at age 70.
Money had been battling stage 4 esophageal cancer, the singer’s publicist said Friday.
Money’s family said in a statement that it was “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.”
“I LOVED working with him in so many ways — a down to earth man and super talent,” spokeswoman indy Ronzoni wrote on Twitter.
Born Edward Mahoney in Brooklyn, Money was raised on Long Island.
He flirted with the idea of following in the footsteps of his father, who was an NYPD cop in Brooklyn, and attended the police academy in the early 1970s while playing local gigs after hours, according to allmusic.com.
But Money ultimately dropped out of the academy and headed to Berkeley, Calif., to pursue his rock and roll dreams. He eventually caught the eye of legendary music promoter Bill Graham, who signed the young crooner to a management contract.
The NYPD on Friday night confirmed that Money was almost “Officer Mahoney.”
“Eddie Money served in the capacity of of a police trainee,” Sgt. Mary Frances O’Donnell told The Post. “He was never appointed to the rank of Police Officer. The NYPD offers their condolences to his family.”
Money’s self-named debut album, released in 1977 by Columbia Records, went double-platinum, with “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Baby Hold On” getting significant airplay.
He scored several more hits, including “Take Me Home Tonight” with Ronnie Spector, which reached 4 on the Billboard charts and earned him a Grammy Award nomination in 1986.
He starred in a TV series about his family titled “Real Money,” which aired on AXS TV beginning in April 2018 and chornicled his home life and health issues.