- Patrick Campbell-Lyons
Patrick Campbell-Lyons (born
13 July 1943 , Lismore,County Waterford ,Ireland ), is a composer and musician who is one half of the cult symphonic-rock band, Nirvana - formed in London in 1967 and still sporadically active in 2006.Campbell-Lyons was part of the West London music scene from the early 1960s playing in several bands. He was the vocalist and a founder member of a locally-popular R&B band "Second Thoughts" whose lineups included future record producer
Chris Thomas ,Thunderclap Newman founder/drummer Speedy Keen and two future members of prog-rock band Jade Warrior (Jon Field and Tony Duhig). Second Thoughts split up in late 1965 and after a year living in Sweden, Campbell-Lyons returned to London in late 1966.In early 1967 he formed Nirvana with Greek musician Alex Spyropolous. The duo (augmented in the studio and live by a floating line-up of session musicians) created a series of critically-acclaimed baroque, orchestrated albums before disbanding in the early 1970s.
Campbell-Lyons then pursued a career in the music business as an A&R executive and producer - while continuing to occasionally record solo albums including "Me & My Friend", "The Electric Plough" and "The Hero I Might Have Been".
Campbell-Lyons' first solo album "Me & My Friend" was reissued on CD in 2001 in the UK by
Market Square Records together with bonus tracks from one of Nirvana's later albums "Songs Of Love And Praise".
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