Hair of the Dog (album)

Hair of the Dog
Studio album by Nazareth
Released	April 1975 (1975-04)
Recorded	1974-75
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	40:20
Label	Mooncrest (UK), A&M (US)
Producer	Manny Charlton
Nazareth chronology
Rampant (1974) Hair of the Dog (1975) Greatest Hits (1975)

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Hair of the Dog is the sixth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1975. The album was recorded at Escape Studios, Kent, with additional recording and mixing at AIR Studios, London, and is the band's biggest selling album, having sold two million copies worldwide.

After three albums with Deep Purple's Roger Glover producing, Manny Charlton stepped into that position, one he filled for several subsequent albums.

It was Nazareth's first big hit album (aside from the minor success of Razamanaz), including classics such as the title track, "Love Hurts" (on the US version, but not the Canadian/European, it replaced the original "Guilty"), "Beggars Day" and "Please Don't Judas Me".

The album title is often considered to be a shortened form of the phrase describing a folk hangover cure, "the hair of the dog that bit you". However, according to Dan McCafferty, the title is a play on "heir of the dog", i.e. a "son of a bitch". This was the title the band had intended for the album, but the label did not approve and had the name changed.

The album was first reissued on CD in 1990. There are also remastered editions released since 1997 with different sets of bonus tracks.

Track listing

All songs written by Manny Charlton, Dan McCafferty, Pete Agnew, Darrell Sweet, except where noted.

The remastered editions include both "Guilty" (track 3) and "Love Hurts" (track 8) plus the following bonus tracks:

1997 Castle Communications / Essential

2001 30th Anniversary Edition

2010 Salvo Records Remaster

• BBC live recordings recorded at Paris Theatre. First transmission date: 27 November 1975
• The song "Hair of the Dog" was also covered by Guns N' Roses on their album "The Spaghetti Incident?" in 1993, and by Britny Fox on their album Boys in Heat in 1989.

Personnel

Band members

• Dan McCafferty – lead vocals, talk box on "Hair of the Dog"
• Manny Charlton – guitar, synthesizer
• Pete Agnew – bass, backing vocals
• Darrell Sweet – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Max Middleton – piano on "Guilty"
• Simon Phillips - tabla on "Please Don't Judas Me"
• Vicki Brown, Liza Strike, Barry St. John – backing vocals on "Guilty"
• Vicky Silva – backing vocals on "Please Don't Judas Me"

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