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Mar 30, 2020 · Share This. Threads. Email. Mark McStea ‘The following is the full transcription of an interview that I did with Alan Merrill about four years ago. A very truncated version appeared in Vive Le Rock in Nov 2016. Alan had been a lifelong hero for me – I loved The Arrows and all of his subsequent solo work. He was the first person that I ever ...
Mar 31, 2020 · Helen Merrill was based in Japan for several years in the late 1960s, as her husband was a music company executive who had been posted to Tokyo. Alan went to join her in 1968. Just seventeen years old, he managed to carve out a niche for himself in the rapidly evolving Japanese music scene.
Contents. Alan Merrill. Alan Merrill (born Allan Preston Sachs; February 19, 1951 – March 29, 2020) was an American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. In the early 1970s, he was one of the few resident foreigners in Japan to achieve pop star status there. He wrote the song " I Love Rock 'n' Roll ", [ 1 ] and was the lead singer on the ...
Jan 12, 2022 · The Stones had just released ‘It’s Only Rock ’n Roll,’ which sounded a bit apologetic to me. I wanted to say it loud and clear. Alan Merrill. Although Merrill was the sole writer, Jake Hooker was given a co-writing credit in return for having paid Merrill’s air fare from Tokyo to London in 1974. “I gave him half of the B-side ...
Mar 30, 2020 · Alan Merrill, a guitarist and singer whose song “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” became Joan Jett’s breakthrough hit, and who had early success as one of the few Western rock stars in Japan in the ...
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Mar 31, 2020 · Alan Merrill’s I Love Rock 'n' Roll is one of the most covered rock tracks of all time. Often assumed to be a Joan Jett song, it actually was released as a single in 1975 by Merrill’s UK-based band, the Arrows. Jett saw them perform it on their own TV show while in England and hit the jackpot with her version in 1981.
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Nov 24, 2012 · Today, Alan Merrill does live solo concerts internationally, both with various backing bands and solo acoustic. In recent years, Alan Merrill has released the solo albums Never Pet A Burning Dog (1998), Cupid Deranged (2002), A Merrilly Christmas (2001), Double Shot Rocks (2003), Aleecat (2004), At The Candy Shop (2006) and Rive Gauche (2007) – a tribute to The Left Banke.
