{"id":276311,"date":"2022-11-09T03:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=276311"},"modified":"2022-11-19T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T03:04:03","slug":"dan-mccafferty-nazareth-vocalist-and-founding-member-dead-at-76-one-of-the-greatest-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/dan-mccafferty-nazareth-vocalist-and-founding-member-dead-at-76-one-of-the-greatest-singers","title":{"rendered":"Dan McCafferty, Nazareth vocalist and founding member, dead at 76: &#8216;One of the greatest singers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan McCafferty, the original vocalist for the hard rock band Nazareth, has died . He was 76. Pete Agnew, the band&#8217;s bassist, announced on the Nazareth Facebook page Tuesday that McCafferty died &#8220;at 12:40 today.&#8221; He did not provide a cause of death. &#8220;This is the saddest announcement I ever had to make,&#8221; Agnew continued. &#8220;Maryann and the family have lost a wonderful loving husband and father, I have lost my best friend and the world has lost one of the greatest singers who ever lived. Too upset to say anything more at this time.&#8221; McCafferty was a founding member of Nazareth, which formed in 1968, alongside Agnew,&nbsp;guitarist&nbsp;Manny Charlton and drummer&nbsp;Darrell Sweet. He retired from the band in August 2013. In a 2014 interview with Classic Rock Here and Now , McCafferty opened up about life with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which Mayo Clinic describes as a chronic inflammatory lung disease that obstructs airflow from the lungs. McCafferty said the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan McCafferty, the original vocalist for the hard rock band Nazareth, has died. He was 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}