"EDDIE MONEY" *** The famous musician/singer.

I met Eddie Money, the famous rock musician, and a famous friend of his "Eddie VanHalen", in Hesperia, California, in the fall of 1992 at a little cafe/pub in town, about 6 months

after surviving that sixth time of being kidnapped by killer(s), in spring of 1992. I had a extreme traumatic brain injury from surviving near death from.

I may of knew before April 1992, of him being a husband & father, but do to head trauma, I did not know about them. He did not mention them either, so as a result,, I had a brief fling/affair with him, I was separated & divorcing my first husband.

Eddie Money, pictured below:

Edward Joseph Mahoney March 21, 1949, known professionally as Eddie Money, was an American singer and songwriter who, in the 1970s and 1980s, had eleven Top 40 songs, including "Baby Hold On", "Two Tickets to Paradise", "Think I'm in Love", "Shakin'", "Take Me Home Tonight", "I Wanna Go Back", "Walk on Water", and "The Love in Your Eyes". Critic Neil Genzlinger of the New York Times called him a working-class rocker and Kristin Hall of the Associated Press stated he had a husky voice. In 1987, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight".

Love all his songs, don't all of you?

Edward Joseph Mahoney was born in Brooklyn, New York City on March 21, 1949, to a large family of Irish Catholics. His parents were Dorothy Elizabeth (née Keller), a homemaker, and Daniel Patrick Mahoney, a police officer. He grew up in Levittown, New York, but spent some teenage years in Woodhaven, Queens. Money was a street singer since the age of 11. As a teenager, he played in rock bands, in part to get dates from cheerleaders. He was thrown out of one high school for forging a report card. In 1967, he graduated from Island Trees High School.

At the age of 18, he tried to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, father, and brother as a New York City Police Department trainee. However, after working as a clerk and typist, he left in 1968 to pursue a career in music, as the police did not allow him to grow his hair long. "I couldn't see myself in a police uniform for 20 years of my life, with short hair," he later said. His bandmates also fired him because they did not want a police officer in the group. His father was not happy with the decision to play music and tore the Jimi Hendrix posters from his wall.

In 1968, Money moved to Berkeley, California. There, he studied with vocal coach Judy Davis, and took on the stage name Eddie Money, dropping a few letters from his name and sarcastically referencing the fact that he was always broke.

Money became a regular performer at clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. After gaining the attention of Bill Graham, he secured a recording contract with Columbia Records, releasing his debut album in 1977. He charted with singles such as "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise", about visiting his girlfriend despite not having money.

In 1978, Money opened for Santana at Boston's Music Hall. The following year, he sang the bridge section on "I'm Alright", a song written and performed by Kenny Loggins. In 2014, Money claimed that Loggins never gave him credit for his contribution.

In 1980, after drinking vodka, Money overdosed on a synthetic barbiturate that he mistook for cocaine. He suffered damage to the sciatic nerve on his left leg, was unable to walk for months, and had a permanent limp thereafter.

In 1982, Money took advantage of the MTV music video scene with his humorous narrative videos for "Think I'm in Love", performed at The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, and "Shakin'". In the early 1980s, he appeared on The Midnight Special, Fridays, and Solid Gold. In 1978 and 1984, he appeared on American Bandstand

On April 8, 2018, Real Money, a reality television series about Money and his family, debuted on AXS TV. An episode sharing his cancer diagnosis aired on AXS TV the day before he almost died. The show's second season was expected to follow Money's "journey as he tells his family about the disease and undergoes treatment."

On Valentine's Day 1984 in Moraga, California, Money married Margo Lee Walker, a student from Los Angeles. He and his bride tried to keep the wedding private, "but a crowd of screaming teenage fans showed up.

Money married Laurie Harris in 1989. Together, they had five children: Zachary, Jessica, Joseph, Julian, and Desmond. They were married for 30 years and had renewed their vows three months prior to his near death.

In July 2019, Money underwent heart valve surgery and contracted pneumonia, causing him to cancel tour dates. He had been a cigarette smoker for years. On August 24, 2019, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. Complications from the cancer at Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles on September 13, 2019, at age 70. A year later, his family filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful ? against the hospital, with an additional allegation of medical malpractice.

*** If you remember Eddie & his band, also sung the song "I killed a man on the Mexican border, give me some water, some cool, cool water". ****

In the fall of 1992, I was technically single (as of June 1990), although not legally single yet, I met Eddie Money, the famous rock musician, and a famous friend of his in California. I enjoyed meeting them, at the time it was an extremely low point in my life.

( If you remember I had been abducted spring of 1992 (6th time) by a man wearing a sheriff's uniform, with a nameplate that read "Gilbert Nercardo" and had an extreme head injury and more. )

I use to know a lot about musicians because I was a music buff and back at the time owned over five hundred albums, but due to the spring of 1992's, severe head injury, concussion, and amnesia of all my education and knowledge of music, education/etc. I no longer had my knowledge of all such facts when I ran into him and his famous friend.

And when I met Mr. Money, fall of 1992, his friend stayed at the home in Hesperia while he took me back to the home I was abducted from in Phelan California, 9575 Zi** Drive #104, for me to get my clothes and such, which when we got there, no one had been living there/moved in, but all my clothes, undergarments, shoes, coats, etc. was all gone. All my stuff was there when I was kidnapped from there. STRANGE, VERY STRANGE.

Eddie got me a leather jacket, by Albert Nepon, (one of the nicest jackets I have ever owned, the leather was so soft) it was stolen from me later. OOh how much i loved that coat from Eddie. I enjoyed his company.

I am forever a fan and will forever care.

I thank him for his friendship, care & companionship at the time during an exceptionally low point in my life.

God Bless.

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THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING A FRIEND. A VERY LOW POINT IN MY LIFE.

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WRITTEN BY:

DEBORAH "DEBBIE" KIM KENNEDY

DATE: 08/22/2021

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