Song · Nazareth
“Love Hurts” by Nazareth
From the album Hair of the Dog (1975)
“Love Hurts” by Nazareth appears on 51 radio countdowns from 25 stations between 1982 and 2026. It was first released in 1975 on the album Hair of the Dog. Its best result is #94 on the KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #656 classic rock song of all time.
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Leave it to a gang of Scottish hard rockers to take a tender Boudleaux Bryant ballad, a song the Everly Brothers first cut back in 1960, and turn it into a howl from the bottom of the glass. Nazareth put "Love Hurts" on their 1975 LP Hair of the Dog, and theirs became one of the song's two hit versions that year.
Manny Charlton produced it and played the guitar and synthesizer, Pete Agnew held down the bass, Darrell Sweet kept the drums at a mournful trudge, and the two of them stacked harmonies behind Dan McCafferty, whose sandpaper rasp does the real damage. He doesn't so much sing the heartbreak as bleed it all over the studio floor.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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