Money released 11 albums throughout his career. He has opened the summer concert season at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Detroit for 28 years. Money was a constant presence on MTV when it debuted, and his recent tours have featured his daughter Jesse Money, who was on MTV’s Rock the Cradle. “Take Me Home Tonight” was nominated for a best rock vocal Grammy in 1987. Spector released the solo album Unfinished Business in 1987. Davis told Money to ask Ronnie, which he did, interrupting her dishwashing and retirement. ![]() Told it would be impossible to get the former lead singer of the Ronettes to sing the central vocal hook, a line from the song “Be My Baby,” Money invited Martha Davis of the Motels to sing it. His biggest hit, the 1986 song “Take Me Home Tonight” from his Can’t Hold Back album, featured Ronnie Spector, the wife of Phil Spector, who was also part of his famous stable of artists. “Baby Hold On,” instantly recognizable from the intro guitar lick from Jimmy Lyons, pays homage to the Doris Day song “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).” He put a hopeful spin in the opening by promising “whatever will be, will be, the future is ours to see” in contrast with her song, which sang the future could not be seen. ![]() Money didn’t come across as merely a performer, but as a fan of the music. Money sang it a GEICO commercial as a travel agent giving a family “Two Tickets to Paradise” to their dream vacation. Homer Simpsons sang and played air guitar to it the “Homer Loves Flanders” episode of The Simpsons from 1994. The song only hit number 22 on the Billboard charts, but it is his signature song. The album produced two big hits, “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise,” which took on a life of its own. Money signed to Columbia and released his self-titled debut album in 1977. And I always stop and take a picture.Money met his manager, legendary rock promoter Bill Graham, in 1976. I run into housewives all the time that are drunk. (Being a writer of music) you become kind of immortal in a way. It brings you back to a certain time or a certain place in your life when things were different. When they were younger, "Baby Hold On" or "Shakin'" came out. Now they are nostalgic about it because it was way back when. Q: What do you think your contribution to rock 'n' roll has been?Ī: I gave them some great songs. She knocks 'em dead when she gets out there though. Bras here and belts there, and boots here and blouses there. It looks like Diana Ross's dressing room on Quaaludes. Q: What's it like when your musician daughter, Jesse Money, tours with you and performs? (He has five kids, all musicians.)Ī: She takes the back room on the bus. It put me out like a light (killing a nerve in his leg.) I couldn't walk for 11 months. One night I got really drunk and someone gave me this (drug) that I thought was OK and it wasn't. Everyone was running around with a thousand women. Everybody was snorting coke, everybody was smoking pot, everybody was drinking vodka. Why did I ever do that? Why? Because everyone else was doing it, that's why. Q: What do you think now about your long-ago past with drug abuse?Ī: I look at it like it was a big mistake. The last 10 years I keep selling records, so maybe people think classic rock is where it's at. Lots of young people are into Eddie Money. Q: What do you think about your songs being included on video games like Guitar Hero and Grand Theft Auto?Ī: I don't play video games, but I think it's cool. Apollonia (of Prince fame) was in "Shakin' " before she did Purple Rain. I look back at those videos and I look like a singing shoe salesman. Q: What do you think MTV did for your career?Ī: I was the first rock star on MTV because nobody was making videos in those days, and Bill Graham (former promoter) decided to make a video for me. There are a lot of people out there (in the audience) with kids over there. The song is called "One More Soldier Coming Home." It's a song about a fallen hero that comes back in a box. All the money I am making I'm going to give to the widows of the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Q: What do you have planned for your Duluth show?Ī: A new song. ![]() Songs that I do that make people feel good, I like doing. The only reason I like the song is because everybody loves it. A: I never really liked "Take me Home Tonight." But I do like Ronnie Spector (of the Ronettes, who sang with him) and having Ronnie Spector on the record was really cool.
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