Nazareth: So You Wanna Stay A Rock 'N' Roll Star?
Tony Stewart, NME, 18 August 1973
DAN McCAFFERTY has no pretensions. As he sits chain smoking in his manager's flat – a mere Rolls Royce-throw away from London's Hyde Park Corner – he explains precisely what Nazareth are, who they've tried to emulate and why they've hit the giddy heights of, um, stardom.
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