There once was a young laddie name o’ Mahoney,
Who took for a stage name Eddie Money,
He quit bein’ a cop,
Into music he did drop,
Sang, Wanna Be A Rock ’N’ Roll Star – no baloney.
Okay, so after he quit the NYPD, it took him nearly ten years to become an overnight success with a pair of 1978 breakout hits: Baby Hold On, and Two Tickets to Paradise. After 1986, his hard-driving sound began to mellow. You may not have heard these later tracks before – but they charted at the time and range from not bad to interesting to pretty good.
1977
Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (4:02)
1978
Baby Hold On (3:31)
1978
Two Tickets to Paradise (3:58)
1979
Get a Move On (3:41)
1982
Think I’m in Love (3:06)
1982
Shakin’ (3:04)
1983
The Big Crash (3:34)
1986
Take Me Home Tonight (3:34)
(featuring Ronnie Spector)
1986
I Wanna Go Back (3:57)
1987
Endless Nights (3:24)
1989
Let Me In (4:54)
1990
Peace in Our Time (5:02)
1991
I’ll Get By (3:33)
1992
She Takes My Breath Away (4:20)
