# Eddie Money R.I.P **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 13, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170 "2019-09-13T15:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/21 "2019-09-14T03:58:43Z")
Aye; Eddie Money was a US rock radio staple from 1977 (his eponymous debut album) until the early 1990s. Solid, blues-based bar-band rock-and-roll. Check out the links in post #14, eh. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/22 "2019-09-14T15:32:47Z")
> [@Asylum](#): > > Fun fact: before he made it in music he was a member of the NYPD. Sort of. Edward Mahoney was hired by the NYPD and was employed prior to training. He never finished the academy and was only considered a “trainee.” Some sources I’ve seen said his grandfather, father and brother were NYPD but I haven’t seen it verified. > **[NYPD clears up Eddie Money cop mystery](https://nypost.com/2019/09/13/nypd-clears-up-eddie-money-cop-mystery/)** > > He wrote “Two Tickets to Paradise,” but he never wrote a traffic ticket. On Friday night, the NYPD cleared up the mystery of whether rocker Eddie Money was ever a cop, as he’d som… ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/23 "2019-09-15T00:46:24Z")
It’s probably for the best that he never actually became a cop. Once the _Police Academy_ movies started rolling off the assembly line, he would have had to deal with endless jokes about being Officer Mahoney. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/24 "2019-09-15T02:47:41Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Sort of. Edward Mahoney was hired by the NYPD and was employed prior to training. He never finished the academy and was only considered a “trainee.” > > Some sources I’ve seen said his grandfather, father and brother were NYPD but I haven’t seen it verified. > > [Eddie Money was almost an NYPD cop: officials](https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/09/13/nypd-clears-up-eddie-money-cop-mystery/amp/) Ignorance fought. I will tweak that info in my trivia bank. Well done sir. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/25 "2019-09-15T04:33:42Z")
> [@Asylum](#): > > Ignorance fought. I will tweak that info in my trivia bank. Well done sir. Not really ignorance. At times Eddie Money inflated his involvement with the department. At times he said he was a cop for two years. Other times he was truthful. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/26 "2019-09-15T05:18:25Z")
RIP, Eddie. Man when did you get old? ☹ I have a memory if him in the 1980s telling an interviewer that he was the only non-cop male in his family. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/27 "2019-09-15T05:35:03Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > For any youngsters who aren’t familiar with Eddie Money, (and for those of us who know him, too): > > [Eddie Money - Shakin’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tcD_dVcXE4) (my favorite song of his) > [Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYEgYVyBDuM&list=PL_M_TPjEl5nbNKFYoIPuIeO3muIzPJdUD) > [Eddie Money - Baby Hold On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyNSIS8jRY&list=PL_M_TPjEl5nbNKFYoIPuIeO3muIzPJdUD) > [Eddie Money - Think I’m In Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbBSIFN36k&list=PL_M_TPjEl5nbNKFYoIPuIeO3muIzPJdUD&index=5) > [Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVj61ZX_8Cs&list=PL_M_TPjEl5nbNKFYoIPuIeO3muIzPJdUD&index=1) > > I’ve heard each of these songs hundreds, if not thousands, of times and yet they all still sound fresh and vital to me. > > Again: RIP Eddie; you done real good. Couldn’t stop in without mentioning my favorite by him: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdYRq8-6kM](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdYRq8-6kM) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/28 "2019-09-15T06:12:05Z")
[I Wanna Go Back](https://youtu.be/o0JqC2UDpoE) [Peace In Our Time](https://youtu.be/I7iRe81VTq4) [Looking Through the Eyes of a Child](https://youtu.be/WA7oB7X9yk4) [Gimme Some Water](https://youtu.be/rU-KVObNEd4) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/29 "2019-09-15T12:45:32Z")
The only time I saw him live was when he sang the National Anthem at an Orioles game. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/30 "2019-09-15T12:54:46Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Eddie Money - Think I’m In Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbBSIFN36k&list=PL_M_TPjEl5nbNKFYoIPuIeO3muIzPJdUD&index=5) In drafting class in HS (1983), there was a stoner who sat behind me, and he would sing this song to himself. But he would change the lyrics to, “I think I’m on drugs. And my life’s a blur.” 😛 RIP Eddie. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170/31 "2019-09-15T13:16:56Z")
Aye; that’s an old sophomoric amusement: change “love” to “drugs” in almost any song. We were all stymied by Huey Lewis & the News tho. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-money-r-i-p/840170.md?page=1)