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.

In 1965, the Everly Brothers released a different version of “Love Hurts” on their album Rock’n Soul. A decade later when Nazareth released it on their sixth album Hair of the Dog in 1975, ...

Dan McCafferty, lead singer of the hard rock band Nazareth, known for such ’70s hits as “Love Hurts” and “Hair of the Dog,” died Tuesday at age 76. No cause of death was immediately ...