TL;DR: Nazareth’s “Love Hurts” was a cover of a song in a different genre. A member of Nazareth said his band’s “Love Hurts” was the first rock ballad.

Alongside the album’s arrival, its track “Love Hurts,” with Lil Uzi Vert, starts at No. 50 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The collaboration is the week’s top-streamed cut from Love ...

Dan McCafferty, the lead singer of Nazareth for 45 years after its founding, and the vocalist for a smash 1970s remake of the Everly Brothers' 'Love Hurts,' has died at 76.