Rock 'n' Roll Telephone

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Rock 'n' Roll Telephone
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Studio album by
Released3 June 2014
Genre
Length43:54
Label Union Square Music
Nazareth chronology
Big Dogz
(2011)
Rock 'n' Roll Telephone
(2014)
Tattooed on My Brain
(2018)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Rock 'n' Roll Telephone is the twenty-third album by Scottish rock band Nazareth, released in June 2014 by Union Square Music. It is their last album with original singer Dan McCafferty who left the group before its release, and later died in 2022. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Jimmy Murrison, Dan McCafferty, Pete Agnew and Lee Agnew

No.TitleLength
1."Boom Bang Bang"3:17
2."One Set of Bones"3:27
3."Back 2B4"4:52
4."Winter Sunlight"3:29
5."Rock 'n' Roll Telephone"5:45
6."Punch a Hole in the Sky"3:49
7."Long Long Time"4:18
8."The Right Time"4:50
9."Not Today"3:26
10."Speakeasy"3:17
11."God of the Mountain"3:42
Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Just a Ride"2:50
13."Wanna Feel Good?"3:50
14."Big Boy" (live)5:39
15."Kentucky Fried Blues" (live)4:32
16."Sunshine" (live)3:42
17."Expect No Mercy" (live)5:07
18."God Save the South" (live)7:00

Personnel

Nazareth

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [4] 35
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [5] 39
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [6] 37
Scottish Albums (OCC) [7] 60
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [8] 58
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 31
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [10] 28
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [11] 13

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