200 gram gatefold LP.

Featuring "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets To Paradise".

Remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

Stoughton Printing old-style tip on jacket.

Plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings.

Edward Joseph Mahoney, a Brooklyn-born second-generation cop who eventually ditched his badge and gun to pursue his rock star dreams as Eddie Money - struck gold right off the bat with his 1977 self-titled debut album.

The record's leadoff single, "Baby Hold On", was actually its biggest hit, but the follow-up single "Two Tickets to Paradise", was a sort of spiritual cousin to Bruce Springsteen‘s "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)". It's written from the perspective of a young guy who's desperately trying to convince his girlfriend to ignore her disapproving parents and come away with him "on a trip so far away from here". With its smooth production, urgent uptempo chorus, and insistent melodic hook, "Tickets" was a natural for late '70s FM radio - where it found an immediate home, eventually working its way all the way up to
N° 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Although Money might have written "Two Tickets to Paradise" to convince a specific girl to leave town with him, its title became shorthand for that end-of-the-work-week feeling you get when you've fulfilled all of your responsibilities to the Man and you're free to relax without obligations for a little while - like, say, at at an Eddie Money concert, where "Tickets" has remained a constant fixture of the set list for more than 30 years.

We've done this Analogue Productions issue up right with top-of-the-line remastering from Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound - for phenomenal sonic quality - and a richly detailed, silent-background Quality Record Pressings 200 gram LP. None better.