ARTIST · HARD ROCK

Nazareth

Dunfermline blues swagger meets FM syrup—Dan McCafferty rasp as national treasure.

Hard rock
Arena rock

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Hair of the Dog's title track became macho-rock meme fuel.

Cover choices (Love Hurts, This Flight Tonight) outshone originals occasionally.

Decades of touring hardened groove into reliable festival fare.

Remastered streams keep Les Paul bite, reverb plates, and vocal smoke.

Nazareth came from Dunfermline, Scotland, and took their name from the Pennsylvania town in The Weight by The Band. Dan McCafferty’s raspy vocals and a hard-rock sound made them stars in the 1970s. Razamanaz (1973) and Loud ’n’ Proud (1973) established them.

Hair of the Dog (1975) included the title track and Love Hurts, a cover of the Everly Brothers song that became their biggest hit. McCafferty left in 2013 and died in 2022.

Interesting facts about Nazareth

01 Scottish hard rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1968.
02 Hair of the Dog (1975) included the title track and Love Hurts as a power ballad hit.
03 Sold millions of albums worldwide across classic line-ups.
04 The band named itself after Nazareth, Pennsylvania, from the song The Weight.
05 Dan McCafferty died in 2022.