Dan McCafferty, the lead vocalist for the hard rock band Nazareth and who voiced 1970s rock classics “Love Hurts” and “Hair of the Dog,” died Tuesday, Nov. 8, from unspecified causes. He was 76.
Nazareth bassist Pete Agnew showed McCafferty loss of life in a publish on Instagram. “This is the saddest declaration I ever needed to make,” Agnew wrote. “Maryann and the own circle of relatives have misplaced a top notch loving husband and father, I even have misplaced my fine buddy and the arena has misplaced one of the best singers who ever lived. Too disillusioned to mention some thing extra at this time.”
While the track was originally recorded in 1960 by the Everly Brothers, the new cover transformed the song for the day’s youth and over the past decades “Love Hurts” graced iconic shows such as King of the Hill and That ’70s Show, and a scene from the 1993 film Dazed and Confused.
The band become motivated through the sounds of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. While tormented by continual obstructive pulmonary disease, McCafferty retired from traveling in 2013 because of headaches to his health. He recorded his very last album, Last Testament, in 2019.
In 1973, the band gained fame in the U.K. with their third album, Razamanaz; the following year, they released Loud and Proud. Although the albums are largely unknown in the U.S., the song “Love Hurts,” from Nazareth’s 1975 album Hair of the Dog shot to No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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