80’s Rocker Eddie Money Back In The Spotlight
With his daughter Jesse, set to be featured on MTV’s newest reality show, Rock The Cradle, “Two Tickets To Paradise” king Eddie Money is back, touring casinos near you, writing a Broadway musical of his life and going a little country. Of his Great White Way ambitions, he had this to say:
I’m hoping to get it on Broadway in the next couple years. I’m calling it Two Tickets to Paradise, and it’s basically the Eddie Money story, but I’ve kind of condensed everything and moved all the events back so that I’m writing “Two Tickets” in the late ’60s, about 10 years earlier than I actually did.
I wanted to capture that whole era, because it was such an important time when it seemed like everything was going on at once. I had a brother who was in the war zone in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, so I wanted to capture that. The whole show takes place on the night before I left [New York] for California. It shows how I met Laurie [his wife], it shows the overdose, all of that stuff.
It’s kind of like Jersey Boys a little bit, but in a different time period. That show reminded me a lot of myself, except in Jersey Boys it’s Frankie Valli’s daughter who dies of a drug overdose and in my play it’s me that has one. So we’ll see. There’s a lot of interest in it in New York right now, so I’m hopeful.
His song “Shakin’” is featured on the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80’s. His official site is here along with tour dates and other info.
photo source: eddiemoney.com
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