...PHOTOBOOK...
  .THE EARLY YEARS [1951 - 1967]
...SOLO & MODELING IN JAPAN [1968 - 1971]
...VODKA COLLINS ERA [1972 - 1973]
...THE ARROWS ERA [1974 - 1977]
...RUNNER ERA [1978 - 1979]
...DERRINGER ERA & SOLO ERA [1980 - 1985]
...PLAYING IN THE BAND MEAT LOAF [1986 - 1989]
...ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN HBO SERIES [1989 - 1990]
...VODKA COLLINS REUNION & VARIOUS PROJECTS [1991 - 2000]
...PHOTOS - SOLO, NEW MILLENNIUM [2000 - 2008)
...NEW PHOTOS, 2009 AND BEYOND [2009 - PRESENT)

SOLO & MODELING IN JAPAN [1968 - 1971]

 

  A mod look, 1968 with the RCA Victor recording group The Lead, in Tokyo.

 		 

  1969 Watanabe Productions archive promotional photo # 1.
 
 

  1969 Watanabe Productions promotional photo # 2.  

  At the"Western Carnival" in 1970. The only foreigner on the show at the Nichigekki Theater, Ginza, Tokyo. All the top Japanese pop bands played the show.
 
 

  1969 photo from the mainJapanese teen magazine "Jo Sei 7".

 		 

  Recording a bass track for the popular band Garo. Alan Merrill was a top session bass player in Japan in 1971.
 
 

  Alan as a model in Fukuso magazine, with model Nancy.
 		 

  Teen magazine, Japan 1970.
 
 
 

 

More teen magazine press, 1970, Japan.

 

  Alan models for Nissan cars, 1970, in a major campaign for the Sunny Excellent car line. Also a TV commercial.
 
 

  More of Alan modeling as the poster kid for Nissan cars Sunny Excellent line.
 		 

 

Alan Merrill, first page in the "Who's who of Japanese rock", 1971. No other foreigner has done this !
 
 
 

  Modeling with various lovlies for AnAn magazine, 1970.With model Yuri Tachikawa.


 

  More modeling in Tokyo for AnAn magazine.
 
 

  More modeling for AnAn magazine in 1970. With model and TV personality Akikara Lisa.
 

  More modeling for AnAn magazine 1970.
 
 
 

 

Last in this series of 1970 AnAn magazine photos. With model Mari Tachikawa.

 

 

Alan models for the Jun clothing Cool Elegance 1969,campaign, also a TV commercial featuring Merrill as the principal.

 
 
 

 

Jun Cool Elegance poster - 1969

 

 

Another Jun Cool Elegance poster - 1969

 
 
 

 

Tokyo 1969 photo mugging for the camera at home in the garden.

  

 

Atlantic Records promotional poster for "Alone in Tokyo" - 1970

 
 
 

 

Alan & star model Diana Hodges, the Panasonic poster girl in Kyoto.

  

 

Alan and Diana Hodges in Kyoto in 1970.
 
 
 

 

At the Foreign Press Club in Tokyo, 1968. A dedicated follower of fashion.

  

 

Tokyo backyard photo, 1968.
 
 
 

 

Kyoto, 1970. Photo taken by baseball star John Werhas of the Taiyo Whales.

  

 

Alan and Michi Nakao, the #1 go-go dancer at Mugen, the top disco in Tokyo, 1968.
 
 
 

 

1968, getting in the Asian mood, just off the plane from New York.

  

 

Buckskin Banzai backyard Tokyo, 1968.
 
 
 

 

Music Life magazine "Separated at Birth" series. Peter Frampton and Alan Merrill. Below Jeremy Spencer and Marc Bolan.

 

 

Tokyo phone booth. Harajyuku, near Kiddy Land, 1968.

 
 
 

 

Throwing a ball against the wall. My backyard in Sendagaya Tokyo.

 

 

Life seen through a table. Backyard Sendagaya Tokyo. Photo Michi Nakao, 1968.