If you’ve ever killed some time roaming the aisles of a drugstore and listening to the store’s musical soundtrack, you’ve probably nodded along to and maybe even hummed an Eddie Money song under your breath. With hits like “Take Me Home Tonight,” “Baby Hold On,” and “Two Tickets To Paradise,” Money, perRolling Stone, “lived to both extol and mock his own self-image of a ‘blue collar’ rocker who’s never earned a Grammy nomination but has sold nearly 30 million albums.” When Eddie Money died of esophageal cancer in 2019 at the age of 70, he’d also lived to star in his own reality show, Real Money, co-starring his wife and five children, three of whom played alongside him in his band.

Real Money not only showcased his 40+ years as a rock star, it highlighted his penchant for dad jokes and trading good-natured wisecracks with his family. Money once even tweeted about dad jokes, posting his favorite (“If you wanted your name in lights, you should’ve been born an exit sign!”) and asking readers to share theirs.

'You try doing that for 30 years in a row!'

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