Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Eddie Money (real name: Mahoney) tried becoming a police officer like his father and brother. It didn’t take (“it was a little too militant for me”), so Eddie took off for San Francisco and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley!! Six credits shy of graduation, Money dropped out of school when he got a deal with the promoter Bill Graham, who became his manager and got him a record deal with Columbia!! “Two Tickets to Paradise”, Eddie Money, 1977......#ed