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1977. Jimmy Carter is the new President, Elvis Presley is found dead on the toilet, and the bicentennial decorations are put away, or more often, left to decay in yards as America moves on to the next hundred years. FM radio is the big format, actively embracing full albums and not just singles. Into this vaguely starry-eyed but rapidly disillusioning environment drops one Edward Joseph Mahoney, a Brooklyn cop’s son with a sandpapered Dion DiMucci set of pipes and a naked hunger for stardom that’d leave the American Idol crowd in the dust. Eddie Money’s eponymous debut is a superb example of “girl rock.” It’s hard enough for the boys but there’s as many drippy, dancing-by-yourself, sighing ballads as rockers (see Def Leppard and Nickelback for more modern examples). The singles – Baby Hold On, Two Tickets To Paradise and You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me – are indestructible, obvious classics, the sort of thing you know you’ll be hearing the rest of your life the very first time they come out of the speakers. But, dig a bit below and you find one of the most overtly romantic artists of the late ’70s, who also had a few tough aces up his sleeve.
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