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It was taken from their 1974 album Rampant. The song paired with "Love, Now You're Gone" was the fourth of eleven of Nazareth's singles to chart in the UK. It reached 41 in the UK Singles Chart in 1974 staying for four weeks. Single fared more favourably in Austria (number seven) and Switzerland, where it peaked at number four.

Donald A. Guarisco of Allmusic describes the song as "plenty of energy, building from verses with a bluesy swing into a throbbing sing-along chorus that any glam band of 1970s would have killed for". Manny Charlton provided power chords which combined with Dan McCafferty's "gritty" lead vocal.

The song was a radio favourite and also a favourite with fans of the group.

Credits

Dan McCafferty - vocals
Pete Agnew - bass guitar, guitar, background vocals
Manny Charlton - guitars, producer
Darrell Sweet - drums, background vocals

Additional musicians

Jon Lord - piano
Vicki Brown, Barry St. John, Liza Strike - background vocals

Charts

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)	7
Germany (GfK)	14
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)	4
UK Singles (OCC)	41

References

Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 577. ISBN 9780862415419.
"Nazareth". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
Lawson, Robert (25 August 2016). Razama-Snaz!: The Listener's Guide To Nazareth. FriesenPress. ISBN 9781460286401. Retrieved 28 August 2018 – via Google Books.
^ "Song Review by Donald A. Guarisco". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
"Nazareth – Shanghai'd in Shanghai" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
"Nazareth – Shanghai'd in Shanghai" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
"Nazareth – Shanghai'd in Shanghai". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
"Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 February 2021.

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Pete Agnew Jimmy Murrison Lee Agnew Carl Sentance Dan McCafferty Manny Charlton Darrell Sweet Zal Cleminson Billy Rankin John Locke Ronnie Leahy Linton Osborne
Studio albums	Nazareth Exercises Razamanaz Loud 'n' Proud Rampant Hair of the Dog Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll Play 'n' the Game Expect No Mercy No Mean City Malice in Wonderland The Fool Circle 2XS Sound Elixir The Catch Cinema Snakes 'n' Ladders No Jive Move Me Boogaloo The Newz Big Dogz Rock 'n' Roll Telephone Tattooed on My Brain Surviving the Law
Live albums	BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert 'Snaz Live at the Beeb Homecoming Back to the Trenches Alive & Kicking
Compilations	Greatest Hits Hot Tracks From the Vaults Greatest Hits Volume II Maximum XS
Songs	"Broken Down Angel" "Bad Bad Boy" "My White Bicycle" "Morning Dew" The Ballad of Hollis Brown" "Hair of the Dog" "Love Hurts" "This Flight Tonight" "Holiday" "Dream On" "Shanghai'd in Shanghai"
Other	Discography

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