Surviving the Law Nazareth

• 1Strange Days03:22
• 2You Gotta Pass It Around03:21
• 3Runaway03:33
• 4Better Leave It Out03:33
• 5Mind Bomb03:31
• 6Sweet Kiss03:34
• 7Falling in Love03:51
• 8Waiting for the World to End02:47
• 9Let the Whiskey Flow03:06
• 10Sinner02:02
• 11Ciggies and Booze03:28
• 12Psycho Skies03:32
• 13Love Breaks03:11
• 14You Made Me05:14
• Total Runtime48:05

Info for Surviving the Law

It is difficult to sum up in few words the history and influence in the history of rock music that an act like Nazareth has had. Having celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 2018 with the release of their 24th studio album, “Tattooed On My Brain”, the long-running UK hard rockers will enter their 54th year of existence in 2022 with the release of their 25th studio album, "Surviving The Law". The line-up for "Surviving The Law" is the same as the previous release, consisting of Jimmy Murrison (longest serving guitarist in the band’s history), Lee Agnew (drummer since Darrel Sweet’s death in 1999), Pete Agnew (founding member, on bass) and vocalist Carl Sentance.

"Surviving The Law '' continues the new chapter that started for the band in 2018 with the arrival of vocalist Carl Sentance (ex-Persian Risk, Don Airey). In 2014, original singer Dan McCafferty had to leave the band for health reasons and with his blessing, Sentance began fronting Nazareth. "Tattooed On My Brain" saw Nazareth a rejuvenated band with a hard rocking album that had all the ingredients that make this band so great in the first place. As with "Tattooed On My Brain", "Surviving The Law" was produced by Yann Rouiller at Sub Station in Scotland. The album features songwriting by all band members and continues the trend established with the previous album, showing that 25 albums into their career, the fire of rock 'n roll still burns as bright as ever at the core of Nazareth.

Nazareth originally formed in Dumferline, Scotland in 1968, releasing their eponymous debut album in 1971. The band broke big when, after supporting Deep Purple on tour, they released the Roger Glover-produced “Razamanaz” album in early 1973 to critical and fan acclaim. They then released an impeccable string of hit records, including “Loud 'N’ Proud”, “Rampant”, and the smash hit "Hair of the Dog", which was released in April 1975. The album included evergreen songs such as the title track (later covered by Guns N’ Roses on their “The Spaghetti Incident?” album) and “Love Hurts”. The band has continued to release albums and tour the globe since, coming up on their 54th year of existence in 2022!Get ready for a very welcomed return from Nazareth!

Carl Sentance, vocals
Jimmy Murrison, guitar
Pete Agnew, bass
Lee Agnew, drums

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 the 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 70's where they met Roger Glover who produced their breakthrough album 'Razamanaz' in 1973 that included the hits 'Broken Down Angel' and 'Bad Bad Boy'.

The album was followed by 'Loud'n'Proud’ later the same year featuring the single 'This Flight Tonight' which became a massive hit throughout Europe and sent the band to number 1 in Germany.

It was also a huge hit in Canada where the band became the first foreign band to do a coast to coast tour of the country that wasn't just part of a North America tour.

When they arrived in the country they were told it was the fastest selling Canadian tour 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" jokes in Nazareth dressing rooms to this day.

Then came 'Rampant' and the massive tour in support of it's 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 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 every band needs to prove that they 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 it's title track (popularly, though incorrectly known as Sonofabitch due to it's 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 sets the standard for a rock ballad vocal to this day. The song became a worldwide hit, reaching number 1 in six countries and remained on the Norwegian chart for 60 weeks.

In 1982 the band released 'Dream On', another ballad that was to become 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.

Their latest release, 'Rock'n'Roll Telephone' (2014) was described by one music press critic simply as "one more masterpiece" so we'll just leave it at that.

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