Eddie Money Eddie Money

180g Vinyl LP Plated & Pressed at QRP!
Featuring "Baby Hold On" & "Two Tickets to Paradise"!
Remastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Tape!
Although his big dream was a career as a musician, Edward Joseph Mahoney decided to follow in his father's footsteps and become a police officer after high school. However, his passion was still music and so Mahoney quit his service with the New York police after a short time and moved to California to try his luck as a rock singer. Mahoney changed his name to Eddie Money and took a decisive step closer to his goal when he attracted the attention of legendary promoter Bill Graham during one of his appearances in 1976.
Graham became Money's mentor and manager, got him a recording contract with Columbia Records, and work on Money's first album could begin. Excellent musicians such as guitarist Jimmy Lyon, saxophonist Tom Scott (L.A. Express), pianist Alan Pasqua (Tony Williams Lifetime) as well as bassist Lonnie Turner and drummer Gary Mallaber from the Steve Miller Band were part of the party. Almost a year later, the time had come: With his debut album "Eddie Money" and the two hit singles "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets To Paradise", Money made his breakthrough in 1977 and laid the foundation for a successful career as a rock star.
Edward Joseph Mahoney — a Brooklyn-born second-generation cop who eventually ditched his badge and gun to pursue his rock star dreams as Eddie Money — struck gold right off the bat with his 1977 self-titled debut album.
The record's leadoff single, "Baby Hold On," was actually its biggest hit, but the follow-up single "Two Tickets to Paradise," was a sort of spiritual cousin to Bruce Springsteen's "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)." It's written from the perspective of a young guy who's desperately trying to convince his girlfriend to ignore her disapproving parents and come away with him "on a trip so far away from here." With its smooth production, urgent uptempo chorus, and insistent melodic hook, "Tickets" was a natural for late '70s FM radio — where it found an immediate home, eventually working its way all the way up to No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Although Money might have written "Two Tickets to Paradise" to convince a specific girl to leave town with him, its title became shorthand for that end-of-the-work-week feeling you get when you've fulfilled all of your responsibilities to the Man and you're free to relax without obligations for a little while — like, say, at at an Eddie Money concert, where "Tickets" remained a constant fixture of the set list for more than 30 years.
This Analogue Productions issue is done up right with top-of-the-line remastering direct from the original analog tape by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound — for phenomenal sonic quality — and a richly detailed, silent-background Quality Record Pressings 180 gram LP. None better.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Remastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Tape
• Plated & pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Stoughton Printing Old-Style Tip-On Jacket

Selections:

Side A
1. Two Tickets To Paradise
2. You've Really Got A Hold On Me
3. want to Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star
4. Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me
5. So Good To Be In Love Again
Side B
1. Baby Hold On
2. Don't Worry
3. Jealousys
4. Got To Get Another Girl
5. Gamblin Man