I think that a bands total body of work should be a major consideration for induction.
Nazareth has performed in a top-shelf professional manner for decades. They have maintained traditional rock roots and didn't sway while others did.
Love Hurts is a classic and major cover throughout the world. Who doesn’t know and love that song. Its gets you (guys) on the dance floor making the better half happy.....
Quit trying to over think qualifications and go with an industry professional for all the right reasons...common sense

Posted by michiganrocker on Tuesday, 04/8/2014 @ 09:07am

The R&R HOF overseers have ZERO insight to WHO is REALLY worthy as an inductee to their shrine. NAZARETH is one of the best 10 R&R bands of ALL TIME. WHY do U continue to ignore their impact wordl wide on the fans who KNOW WHO has the stuff and those who are POPULARITY inductees???

Posted by Tommy on Sunday, 03/15/2015 @ 22:29pm

I've LIVED ALL of Nazareth's work and THEY are TOPS in R&R. Very few OTHER bands come close to the MUSIC these guys generate and Dan Mc has the BEST R&R voice and he can sing ANYTHING very, very well That is WHY Nazareth can cover ANYBODY'S music. ANYBODY's folks.

Posted by Tommy on Wednesday, 07/1/2015 @ 18:27pm

Hell yes Nazareth should be in the hall of fame

Posted by Edward on Monday, 03/6/2017 @ 16:40pm

Yes Nazareth should be in great music through the years and ever evolving sound Dan McCafferty had the best Rock voice ever.

Posted by Scott Forsythe on Sunday, 03/19/2017 @ 13:51pm

Yes Nazareth should be in great music through the years and ever evolving sound Dan McCafferty had the best Rock voice ever.

Posted by Scott Forsythe on Sunday, 03/19/2017 @ 13:52pm

NAZARETH meet all the critera for Induction into the Hall of Fame - and deserve a nomination for 2019 - 50 yrs in the business and one of the most hardworking bands ever - to the "Hall of Famers " please make this happen for 2019 !. thanks MONTY

Posted by Brian Montgomery on Sunday, 06/24/2018 @ 06:53am

Put down the crack pipe already...

Posted by KXB on Sunday, 06/24/2018 @ 07:05am

If Nazareth cannot get in the hall should be closed

Posted by Burton King on Wednesday, 06/3/2020 @ 19:39pm

I love Nazareth, especially the song LOVE Hurts, that is fantastic

Posted by Cathy Pack on Tuesday, 07/7/2020 @ 18:04pm

I love Nazareth and think they should be in the RR HOF. They're not the greatest band ever, but take a look at the list of inductees. Good grief, many aren't even rock and roll.

Posted by DON JENNINGS on Sunday, 08/16/2020 @ 17:58pm

Scotland's own, the one & only Nazareth, they deserve this honour for sure

Posted by Hilary Aysha Aspinall on Friday, 02/26/2021 @ 02:52am

By far the most criminally underrated Rock band of all time, bands like Metallica and Guns N Roses cited Nazareth as a big influence.. Dan Mccafferty has one of the most recognizable voices in Rock.

Posted by Donald Dodds on Monday, 04/26/2021 @ 13:01pm

Nazareth is much more than Love Hurts and Hair of the Dog. Start with their first album and go from there. Golden Earring needs to be in also if they are not.

Posted by Alpine Ray on Monday, 09/13/2021 @ 09:30am

Rest in Peace Manny Charlton (Nazareth's founding lead guitarist), 1941-2022.

Posted by Joe S. on Wednesday, 07/6/2022 @ 18:58pm

Nazareth should already be in the Hall. Shame on us all.

Posted by Pattie on Friday, 08/5/2022 @ 19:30pm

For goodness sakes yall wanted to induct Dolly Parton (which don't get me wrong I love the woman and her music) but I haven't once heard her cut a rock album. Get it together RRHOF.

Posted by Pattie on Friday, 08/5/2022 @ 19:35pm

Use to prattle Deep Purple and Yes belonged in.. And now that they are in I advocate for others. The Cars getting in with only 7 studio recordings. Granted the first 2 are near perfect. So rather someone like The Cars get in than Madonna even if she is a genus. So my list is of bands that should have gotten in prior to the cars. Uncle Ted swhy do we car who he wants for president? Then second I have a three way tie. Nazareth -- UFO and Uriah Heep -- In real life Iron Maiden seems the new popular choice for a bad that should be in but isn't. And I agree they belong in after Nazareth UFO Uriah Heep april wine REO and Jetro Tull. Judas Priest was mentioned in real life by some as well but they are now in. They were on my list of 13 that belonged in... Even I have mixed feelings about REO getting in... High Infidelity was a disappointment to those of us who just wanted a strait ahead solid rock album. But sold tones of copies and thus had influence. Mootan was great but Golden Earring also had many duds. So I have paired down the list. Perhaps Uriah Heep isn't famous enough but they are good enough and SHOULD be in. Firefly is a perfect album. Also Sea Of Life is great.

Posted by Zrocker on Saturday, 09/24/2022 @ 03:26am

Rest in Peace Dan McCafferty, 1946-2022.

Posted by Joe S. on Tuesday, 11/8/2022 @ 16:23pm

Rest in Peace Dan McCafferty, 1946-2022.

Posted by Joe S. on Tuesday, 11/8/2022 @ 16:23pm

Sometimes, the right people dont give you props til you're gone. That is the case with Nazareth. One of four influential bands out of the UK in the late 60s, Nazareth along with Deep Purple and Led Zepplin, broke ground for Rock n Roll and Heavy Metal. Nazareth, however, had Dan McCafferty's Little Richard-inspired raspy, screaming vocal. This vocal impressed fellow UK artist Deep Purple who went on the road with then and Roger Glover believed in them so much that he produced three of their early 70s albums. This teaming woupd result in a breakthrough on the charts in Canada, the UK, and many other European countries, with fans who still by their records today. More significantly, in relationship to The Hall are how McCafferties vocals inspired AC/DC's Brian Johnson and Guns N Roses' Axl Rose. Sadly, the Nazareth influece wasn't highlighted and publicized until after McCafferty's passing. RIP Dan (and lead guitartist Manny Charlton, who passed away this last July. You truly rocked the world in a unique way.

Posted by Rob Donison on Friday, 12/16/2022 @ 07:47am

Sasly, Nazareth didn't get the props they deserved unril after Manny and Dan recently passed. Since then, Brian Johnson and Axl Rose have mase it clear how the band shapped the sound of AC/DC abd Guns N Rosrs. Nazareth formed in the 1960s and began having hits in Canada and many European countries following a teaming with fellow hard rock pioneers Deep Purple in the early-1970s. Imagine a world without Back In Black or Appetite For Destruction. Dan's Lottle Richard- inspired, raspy screalung vocals are unmistakable, and you can hear his influence on 70s and 80s rock bands whether they gave him props or not. RIP Dan (and Manny.) You will never be forgotten.

Posted by rob donison on Friday, 12/16/2022 @ 08:00am

Nazareth, what isn't that you can't say anything bad about. This is one band that influenced me to go deeper into their type of sound, like Bad Company, Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, Trooper, April Wine, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Triumph, and Rush. Although I could have gone on further.
But, Nazareth's music, and the songs that they had covered, had their style and unique sound to be a staple to their roots. I've been a huge fan of ever since I heard their first release "Morning Dew". Then in 1976 I heard Judas Me and Love Hurt's. Great songs.
Now, above mentioned bands like, Reo Speedwagon, Uriah Heep, UFO, and Golden Earring. Let start by saying, up until the singer passed away in January of 2021. They were the oldest rock band still touring and recording. It was that band that influenced Red Rider, and White Lion, I'm certain that there is a few other's than what I mentioned.
The other two, I love their stuff, but I didn't follow them enough to know to much about them.
But, if Nazareth doesn't get nominated for to be one of the inductees, than RRHOF is insane.

Posted by Danny Painter on Monday, 02/20/2023 @ 17:49pm

Hair of the Dog was the first "album" I ever learned every wod to. It was an 8 track (remember those?) and I think I was around 7. Need I say more?

Posted by Kaye Paladino on Sunday, 05/14/2023 @ 14:34pm

Nazareth not in the hall of fame is a crime. One of my all time favorite bands. Mac's voice is iconic, one of the best by far.

Posted by Harry Grant on Tuesday, 10/17/2023 @ 16:49pm

I simply cannot believe Nazareth & Uriah Heep are not in RRHOF, but they wanna induct Dolly Parton, what in the hell is wrong with these people, put those 2 bands in, please!!!!!

Posted by Jeff Carroll on Sunday, 10/22/2023 @ 07:04am

Nazareth started out in the late 60s from the same part of the world as Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin abd Priest. But no one could sing like Dan McCafferty. Heis raspy, soul- screamibg style was influenced by Little Richard and Otis Redding, not aby ofvthe bands mentioned. Dan McC and Nazareth make everyone take notice and influenced younger woupd be rockers from AC/DC to Guns N Roses. Sadly, ut wasn't until his passing that RRHOF inductees Brian Johnson and Axl Rose acknowledged him as being the voice they wrre trying to copy. Even Bon Scott didn't start teally screaming until Dan McCafferty until Nazareth started releasing albums, under Deep Purple's Roger Glover's production (DP were so impressed with Nazareth that they went out of the road with them in the early 60s). Sure Little Richard was Bon and Dan's singing idol, but Dan took it into his own unique sound that anyone who could sing like that tried and did. No one coupd though in the late 60s and early 70s. Dan loaned money to Robert Plant before he was in Zeppelin,and all those legendary late 60s UK bands knew of Dan's unique sound. Nazareth, whether via their covers or original tines rocked the world in their own unique way and influenced generations of rockets. As one of them, Cinderella, sang,You Don't Know What You Got Til It's Gone." Sadly, with Dan, Manny, and Darrell gone, many still don't know. Nazareth need to be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Posted by Rob Donison on Sunday, 03/24/2024 @ 07:02am

Nazareth is one of the greatest Rock Bands of All Time. The Hall of Fame has lost its credibility by not recognizing this True Rock and Roll Band. It's about the music not about the politics!

Posted by John W on Thursday, 03/28/2024 @ 23:57pm