I saw in the Guardian earlier in the week that Dan McCafferty lead singer of Nazareth, one of those Scottish groups which found success in the early 1970s, has died – only a few months after the band’s guitarist Manny Charlton passed away.

McCafferty had the perfect voice for a singer of hard rock’n’roll. That voice was shown off to great effect on Love Hurts – see here.

I also noted a couple of the band’s cover versions in this post.

Here’s the band’s second UK hit, a no 10 in 1973 as performed on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Nazareth: Bad, Bad Boy

William Daniel (Dan) McCafferty: 14/10/1946 – 8/11/2022. So it goes.

I saw in the Guardian last week that Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton has died.

Nazareth were one of the first Scottish groups – at least since (The) Marmalade – to have a succession of records featuring in the UK charts.

This was their first such hit.

Nazareth: Broken Down Angel

Manuel (Manny) Charlton: 25/7/1941 – 5/7/2022. So it goes.