- Two Tickets to Paradise
Infobox Single
Name = Two Tickets to Paradise
Artist =Eddie Money
from Album = Eddie Money
B-side = "Don't Worry"
Released =1978
Format = 7" single
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Columbia
Writer =
Producer =
Chart position = * #22 (U.S.)
Last single = "Baby Hold On "
(1978)
This single = "Two Tickets to Paradise"
(1978)
Next single = "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
(1979)Two Tickets to Paradise is a song by American rock singer
Eddie Money , from his album Eddie Money in1977 . It was released as a single and reached #22 on theBillboard Hot 100 . Money wrote the song about his girlfriend at the time. His girlfriend's mother wanted her to marry a doctor or a lawyer, not a musician. Money wrote the song as plea to take her away. It was also used as one of the songs in "" and on an episode of the TV show "Unhitched ". The song also appears in the episode "Homer Loves Flanders " of "The Simpsons ", in which Homer sings and plays the air guitar to the rock song.Michael Scott of "The Office" sings a short, parodied version of the song in the episodeA Benihana Christmas . It was also featured in the episode ofThe King of Queens where Doug and Deacon attempt to spend $5000 in one day, and they hire Eddie to play in Doug's living room. Additionally, the song can be heard as a background number in the movie "Sideways".
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