Dan McCafferty, founding member of rock band Nazareth, dies – Muricas News

Nazareth founding member Dan McCafferty has died on the age of 76.

“That is the saddest announcement I’ve ever needed to make,” bassist Peter Agnew wrote on Fb. “Marianne and the youngsters have misplaced a loving husband and father, I’ve misplaced my greatest good friend, and the world has misplaced one of many world’s biggest vocalists. have ever been. I’m too upset to say something extra now.”

Nazareth was shaped in 1968 by The Shadettes in Dunfermline. Three years later they moved to London the place they recorded their debut album. Friendship with Deep Purple musicians helped the group to attain success, who in 1972 provided Nazareth to play for them as a gap act on an American tour.

The band’s hit songs had been Hair of the Canine and Love Hurts, the final of which was a quaer for a tune recorded by the Everly Brothers. The album Hair of the Canine, recorded in 1975, was licensed platinum. It has bought over one million copies within the US alone.