Dan McCafferty, unique lead singer of rock band Nazareth, useless at 76

London Muricas News  — 

Dan McCafferty, the unique lead singer of Scottish onerous rock band Nazareth, has died aged 76, his band has confirmed.

“That is the saddest announcement I ever needed to make,” band member Pete Agnew wrote in an announcement posted to the band’s web site, saying McCafferty’s loss of life on Tuesday.

“Maryann and the household have misplaced a beautiful loving husband and father, I've misplaced my finest pal and the world has misplaced one of many biggest singers who ever lived.

“Too upset to say something extra presently,” he added.

McCafferty was one of many founding members of Nazareth, which advanced out of the Scottish beat group Shadettes, in 1968, together with Agnew, Manny Charlton and Darrell Candy.

The band is finest recognized for its cowl of the ballad “Love Hurts,” which reached quantity 8 on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 record in March 1976, in addition to the hit 1975 album “Hair of the Canine,” with which it established a global viewers.

By 2013, McCafferty was discovering it robust to be on stage attributable to experiencing respiration difficulties after being identified with persistent obstructive pulmonary illness.

He stopped touring with Nazareth in autumn of that 12 months after making the album “Rock ‘n’ Roll Phone,” and English rock singer Carl Sentence was recruited because the band’s new lead vocalist.

McCafferty had a number of private tasks, releasing his last solo album, “Final Testomony,” in 2019.