Recording Industry Finance Edward Mahoney Agreement with CBS Records September 1992

Eddie Money

Manuscripts & Autographs

Mahoney, Edward “Eddie Money.” Promissory note with CBS Records, September 15, 1992, documents a $227,500 financial obligation between the rock musician and his longtime recording company, providing direct evidence of the contractual administration underlying a major-label career. Money recorded professionally under a stage name but executed the note as “Edward Mahoney,” linking his public identity to the legal and financial structures of the recording business. The document supports research into artist-label relations, contractual identity, compensation practices, and the business structures governing established rock performers.

Mahoney, Edward “Eddie Money.” Promissory Note with CBS Records. September 15, 1992. Two pages, quarto. The agreement records a principal sum of $227,500 and bears Money’s black-ink signature, “Edward Mahoney.” As a promissory note, it formalizes a repayment obligation and demonstrates the process by which a record company documented money advanced or otherwise owed by an artist; the supplied information does not establish the payment schedule, interest terms, consideration, or recording project associated with the debt. Its two-page form and legal-name signature preserve the specific documentary mechanisms through which the financial relationship was authorized and enforceable.

The note was executed after Sony’s 1988 acquisition of CBS Records and its 1991 renaming of the company as Sony Music Entertainment, although legacy CBS Records terminology evidently remained in use in the present agreement. Created during this corporate transition, the document connects Money’s individual finances to the broader consolidation of the recording industry under Sony ownership. Staple holes at the upper-left corner; otherwise clean, with a clear and legible signature; overall near fine. A substantial signed financial instrument revealing the monetary obligations operating behind Eddie Money’s public career and continuing relationship with his record label.

Item #6512

Price: $225.00