{"id":115762,"date":"2022-11-09T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115762"},"modified":"2022-11-09T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:15:00","slug":"frontman-of-nazareth-dan-mccafferty-dies-at-76-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115762","title":{"rendered":"Frontman of Nazareth Dan McCafferty Dies at 76 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115762\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=115762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-115763 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dan-McCafferty-dead-Former-Nazareth-frontman-and-Scottish-rock-pioneer-dead-at-76-1693960-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dan-McCafferty-dead-Former-Nazareth-frontman-and-Scottish-rock-pioneer-dead-at-76-1693960-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dan-McCafferty-dead-Former-Nazareth-frontman-and-Scottish-rock-pioneer-dead-at-76-1693960.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan McCafferty, who was best known as the frontman for the Scottish band Nazareth, whose hits include \u201cLove Hurts\u201d, passed away November 8, 2022. The cause of death was not provided. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>McCafferty was a founding member of Nazareth from its inception in 1968 until his retirement from the band in 2013. Nazareth produced twenty five studio albums and among them several singles were released including \u201cDear John\u201d, Morning Dew\u201d, \u201cBroken Down Angel\u201d, Bad Bad Boy\u201d, \u201cMy White Bicycle\u201d, \u201cHoliday\u201d, \u201cPiece of My Heart\u201d, and \u201cRuby Tuesday\u201d. He toured with Nazareth for 45 years. McCafferty also produced three solo albums, and among them, released five singles.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Dan McCaffery\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Dan McCafferty, who was best known as the frontman for the Scottish band Nazareth, whose hits include \u201cLove Hurts\u201d, passed away November 8, 2022. The cause of death was not provided. He was 76. McCafferty was a founding member of Nazareth from its inception in 1968 until his retirement from the band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[29808],"class_list":["post-115762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-frontman-of-nazareth-dan-mccafferty-dies-at-76-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115762"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}