'I Love Rock and Roll' co-writer dies of virus complications
Source: AP
NEW YORK (AP) Alan Merrill who co-wrote the song I Love Rock and Roll that became a signature hit for fellow rocker Joan Jett died Sunday in New York of complications from the coronavirus, his daughter said. He was 69.
Laura Merrill said on her Facebook account that he died in the morning.
I was given 2 minutes to say my goodbyes before I was rushed out. He seemed peaceful and as I left there was still a glimmer of hope that he wouldnt be a ticker on the right hand side of the CNN/Fox news screen, she wrote. I walked 50 blocks home still with hope in my heart. The city that I knew was empty. I felt I was the only person here and perhaps in many ways I was. By the time I got in the doors to my apartment I received the news that he was gone.
Merrill said her father was in good spirits recently. She went to a show of his about two weeks ago and had taken a photograph of him for his new album, Merrill said.
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Botany
(70,594 posts)... so on. We are now all slices of bread. The only question is who is going to become toast?
Bernardo de La Paz
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(24,720 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)He just played a gig about 2 weeks ago in Harlem.