“I Wanna Go Back” was a modest hit for them at No. Like “Heaven in the Back Seat” a few years later, “I Wanna Go Back” also came from a little-known source: It was written by the Oakland rock band Billy Satellite, who recorded one self-titled album for Capitol Records in 1984 before fading away. “I Wanna Go Back” ( Can’t Hold Back, 1986) “It was supposed to be a horn part, but the horn player never showed up, so I had to do it with my mouth.”Ĩ. “I hate singing ‘Na na na na na na na na na,’” he told Rolling Stone. 9, “Walk on Water” helped keep Money’s career momentum up for another few years, but he had trepidation about performing it live. Everything about “Walk on Water” is soaked in era signifiers: Money’s chest-beating vocal, canned harmonies and skyscraping hook all add up to a sound that remains unabashedly 1988. Money stayed the course with an increasingly commercial sound via this 1988 hit, written by Sammy Hagar’s one-time keyboardist Jesse Harms. 58 on the Hot 100, but it hardly matters: “Heaven” remains goofy, high-energy fun.ĩ. The lyrics are knuckle-dragging (“She’s got what I want/ I got what she needs/ Me and my baby and the mirror makes three”), the sound is frozen in early-1990s amber and it stalled out at No. band Romeo’s Daughter on the 1988 soundtrack to Nightmare on Elm Street V, Money covered “Heaven in the Back Seat” for his 1991 comeback album Right Here. “Heaven in the Back Seat” ( Right Here, 1991)Ī lovably sleazy locker-room anthem written for U.K. In honor of the late Money and his string of sturdy, timeless rock hits, here are his 10 greatest songs, ranked.ġ0. 13) at 70 after a short battle with esophageal cancer. Today, we mourn the loss of the proudly meat-and-potatoes, bar-rocking legend, who chose to keep both feet planted in the humble and suburban, even as he came within spitting distance of No. And I always stop and take a picture.Eddie Money Diagnosed With Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer 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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