Eddie Money obit

Eddie Money Dies at 70, Weeks After Announcing Esophageal Cancer Diagnosis

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Eighties hitmaker Eddie Money died on Friday at age 70. A representative confirmed to PEOPLE he succumbed to complications from a recent heart valve replacement.

“The Money family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning,” his family said in a statement to PEOPLE. “It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music.”

The “Two Tickets to Paradise” singer’s death came less than a month after he announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer.

“I thought I was just going in to get a checkup and [the doctor] told me that I got cancer,” Money said in a clip from season two of his reality show Real Money. The show follows the daily lives of the musician, his wife Laurie and their five children.

Money received his diagnosis in the fall of 2018 while filming for the second season of his AXS TV reality series, which began airing that year. The news was announced as the musician recovered from his heart valve procedure this summer.

Money went on to cancel the rest of his 2019 tour dates in July after developing pneumonia.

“We are incredibly saddened to hear that Eddie Money passed away,” AXS tells PEOPLE in a statement. “Our thoughts are with Laurie, Jesse, Dez, Joe, Julian and Zach at this time.” The network plans to air the final five episodes of the series, in addition to a special tribute on Sunday, Sept. 15.