Alan Merrill, co-writer of 'I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll' dies due to coronavirus

The co-writer of the popular song “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” Alan Merrill died on Sunday due to complications from coronavirus. He was 69.

Taking to Facebook, his daughter Laura Merrill, said that her father died in New York on Sunday morning.

“I was given two 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 wouldn’t 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.”

She said Merrill had been in good spirits recently.