Nazareth - Love Hurts (1974)

McCafferty was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Under the influence of artists such as Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Otis Redding, he became one of the founding members of Nazareth in 1968. He has appeared on all of Nazareth’s albums up to 2014 and has toured with them for 45 years. Love Hurts was first recorded by the Everly Brothers in July 1960, and was covered by many, many artists before it truly got international fame when Nazareth – a rock band hailing from Dunfermline, Scotland – recorded their version of it in 1974. The Everly Brothers may have been the first to cover it, but as they never released the song as a single, it was Roy Orbison who first had a hit with it when he took it to the Top 5 of the Australian charts in 1961. A recording of the song by Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons is also notable, not the least in being the version that inspired Nazareth to do theirs. Knowing how well Love Hurts did, it is perhaps surprising to learn that it was never meant to go out as a sing