Manny Charlton, a founding member of the Scottish hard-rock band Nazareth, has died. He was 80. The information was confirmed by the guitarist’s grandson Jamie Charlton, who shared a photograph on social media with the caption “RIP Grandad.”
Born in Andalusia, southern Spain, Charlton relocated to Dunfermline, Scotland within the Nineteen Forties. He co-founded Nazareth (impressed by the Band’s “The Weight”) in 1968. Collectively, the band toured with Deep Purple in 1971 and commenced headlining their very own reveals a few years later. Charlton additionally acted because the band’s producer, stepping in for Deep Purple’s Roger Glover on 1975’s Hair Of The Canine, which featured the ballad “Love Hurts” (first recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1960) and have become Nazareth’s best-known album, promoting greater than two million copies.
Within the mid-’80s, Axl Rose famously requested that Charlton produce Weapons ‘N’ Roses’ debut, Urge for food For Destruction. Charlton did 25 tracks at Sound Metropolis in Los Angeles however a scheduling battle led to Mike Clink producing the album. Charlton’s demos have been later included on the 2018 reissue of Urge for food For Destruction.
Charlton left Nazareth in 1990, following the band’s seventeenth studio album, 1989’s Snakes ‘N’ Ladders. He launched a handful of solo albums, together with 2014’s Hellacious. His closing venture was 2018’s best-of compilation, Creme de la Creme.