Eddie Money
It occurred that one of the less recognized aspects of the brief but all-important Punk Rock trend in the latter half of the Seventies is how it aided and abetted countless upstart bands at the same time which were not necessarily a part of that CBGB Club scene…There is no doubt that the stirring of the rock crock pot by the Punks caused a lot of interest in new bands in general, particularly for the New York City-based record labels and rock press. Singer/ songwriter Eddie Money may have been in San Francisco when he convinced legendary concert promoter Bill Graham to manage him, but both Money and his mentor were Big Apple natives, which didn’t hurt when Columbia Records offered Eddie a deal for his self-titled debut in 1977.