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Alan Merrill, Tokyo Japan, April 2017.

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Alan Merrill solo acoustic show, Shinjyuku Tokyo Japan 2014

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Alan Merrill & friends at Club Crocodile, Shibuya Tokyo 2010. L-R: Michiaki Suzuki, Grico Tomioka, Alan Merrill, Take Yokouchi, Katsutoshi Morizono.

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Arrows 1st single on RAK records, April 1974 UK. This is an advert in Disc weekly music newspaper. The single got up to #6 in the British charts. Arrows were a short lived but successful band, lasting only about 2 years (1974-’76) as a group with several chart hits and a weekly TV series before they broke up.

Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, Paul Varley left to right.

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Alan Merrill, Runner British band, 1978 London England.

Photo Andy Seymour.

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Left to right: Japanese band The Rock Pilots bassist Tom Kuhata andsinger songwriter Alan Merrill backstage at Expo 70, Expo Hall Osaka Japan, August  11-16th 1970. The two sang together at Expo, two shows and day for a 6 days.

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Alan Merrill’s new Arrows UK tour, Jan. 26, 2013.

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Wembley Arena London England, Meat Loaf “Blind Before I Stop” world tour 1987. Alan Merrill with his Tokai Flying V guitar.

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Alan Merrill “Cupid Deranged” (2002) solo CD, photo by Mick Rock.

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Wembley Arena London England, Meat Loaf “Blind Before I Stop” world tour 1987. Left to right- Chick Burgi drums, Alan Merrill guitar, Steve Buslowe bass, Bob Kulick guitar. 

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Guitarist Alan Merrill playing with Meat Loaf on the Lost Boys and Golden Girls world tour 1988.

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The Arrows lead singer Alan Merrill, pin up in a UK teen magazine 1974.

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Historic issue of Words magazine! 

The first time the lyrics of the Arrows song “I Love Rock N Roll” ever appeared in print was in the June 1st 1975 edition of a magazine called WORDS (of 31 hits) in England.

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Alan Merrill laying down guitar parts on his solo album “On A Blue Avenue” (2018) at Jon Gordon’s studio in midtown Manhattan, NYC.

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Alan Merrill アラン・メリル Duo Music Exchange Tokyo Japan April 2017.

Photo by Tad Maeda.

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Alan Merrill アラン・メリル  and drummer Eliot Zigmund performing at the Tokyo Blue Note 2005.

Photos by Yuji Hashimoto.

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Alan Merrill 4 album set, the collections volumes 1,2,3 &4. Over 80 songs total.