Nazareth Canadian Farewell Tour

Nazareth is without doubt the biggest rock band to emerge from Scotland. They were The Pioneers who took Scottish Rock international and paved the way for many other great Scottish bands that came later… the likes of Big Country, Simple Minds etc.

The original members first came together in Pete Agnew’s band “The Shadettes” in 1968 and changed the name to Nazareth in 1970. They toured with Deep Purple in the early 70s where they met Roger Glover
who produced their breakthrough album Razamanaz in 1973 that included the hits Broken Down Angel and Bad Bad Boy. To album was followed by Loud N’ Proud later the same year featuring the single This Fight Tonight which became a massive hit throughout Europe and sent the band to number one in Germany.

It was also a huge hit in Canada where the band became the first foreign bands to do a coast to coast tour of the country that wasn’t just part of the North America tour. When they arrive in the country they were told it was the fastest selling Canadians or of all time and in fact had sold out faster than Elvis who had been there recently. As you can imagine, you can still hear a host of “faster than
Elvis” joke in Nazareth dressing room to this day.

Then came Rampant and the massive tour in support of its release seeing the band play 50 shows in 9 countries throughout Europe and Scandinavia. The tour was quickly followed by the release of the single My White Bicycle which gave them another chart hit in the UK and Germany.

They were now riding a crest of popularity around the world but still had not managed to get that elusive American hit that everybody needs to prove that they are really are a global success. As it turns out, that hit was just around the corner.

The classic album that brought them American success and international acclaim was the next one, “Hair of The Dog” and its title track (popularly, though incorrectly known as “Sonafabitch” due to its hook lyric) became a staple of Rock Radio throughout the world. Many bands were later known to say how much that song had influenced them and in fact it was covered by Guns N’ Roses on their Spaghetti Incident album, as the guys are well known Naz fans.

The American version of the album contained the beautiful “LOVE HURTS” which still set the standard for a rock ballad vocal to this day. The song became a worldwide hit, reaching #1 in six countries and remain on the Norwegian charts for 60 weeks. In 1982 the band released “Dream On”, another ballet that was to became an anthem throughout Europe. From 1971 till now Nazareth have recorded 23 studio albums, earning them platinum, gold and silver awards throughout the world with 3 platinum and 8 gold albums coming from Canada alone.

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