
One day in the early weeks of 1975, Scottish rock band Nazareth were working at Air Studios in London, close to Oxford Circus, finishing their sixth album, Hair Of The Dog. There was a buzz around the place; in an adjacent room, Mott The Hoople were recording new tracks; in another was Paul McCartney.
Nazareth’s singer Dan McCafferty had just laid down his lead vocal for a heavy, slow-rolling number called Miss Misery, and Pete Agnew, the group’s bassist, was blown away by what he’d heard. “Dan really let rip,” he recalls. “It was fucking amazing.”