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Patrick Campbell-Lyons (born 13 July 1943), is an Irish composer and musician who is one half of the cult symphonic-rock band, Nirvana, formed in London in 1967. [3] Campbell-Lyons, a native of Lismore, County Waterford , was part of the West London music scene from the early 1960s playing in several bands.
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“Alex and I were enjoying songwriting together, but we said to each other at some point that we better get a name together for the band,” Patrick Campbell-Lyons tells uDiscover Music. “I came up with the name Karma, which we both loved. But the next morning Alex called me said, ‘I think I might have a better one.’ I asked him what it was and he sai...
Twenty years later, in Seattle, a band co-formed by the late Kurt Cobain was looking for a name and chose the same one. When “Smells Like Teen Spirit” made the US Nirvana global stars in 1991, the news reached the ears of Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropolous. “We never really thought about the name much after the start of the band until all ...
Patrick Campbell-Lyons, who was born on 13 July 1943, in Lismore, Waterford, made ends meet when he first came to London by working in a Wall’s ice cream factory as he pursued a music career as part of the thriving West London scene of the 60s. One of his first breaks was as vocalist of R&B band Second Thoughts, whose line-up included future record...
In 1967, Island were putting out records by Dave Mason, Free, Jimmy Cliff, Traffic, and Ken Boothe, among others, and they had just made folk singer John Martyn their first solo signing ahead of the release of his album London Conversation. “We knew John Martyn,” says Campbell-Lyons. “He was in and around the offices in Oxford Street. At the time w...
“‘Rainbow Chaser’ was fortunate for us and a success that was not planned,” recalls Patrick Campbell-Lyons. “The single in May 1968 was going to be ‘Girl In The Park’ with ‘Rainbow Chaser’ on the B-side. In those days you gave your best and put something strong on both sides of a single, because you wanted to show you had good material. There was a...
The highlight of Campbell-Lyons’ own performing career was playing for the art genius Salvador Dalí. “He had always been a hero of mine. When I was 18 or 19 I saw his paintings and fell in love with them, and though I might have been impressionable then, his art has stayed with me always,” he says. “My first ever trip abroad, in the so-called Magic...
After living through such colorful experiences, the musician has concerns about a modern world where “technology keeps people in their rooms, hypnotized by screens.” He believes that music has not really moved forward since the 60s, which is why there is so much referencing back to the great bands of that era. “Even counter-movements such as punk h...
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Nirvana was created as the performing arm of the London-based songwriting partnership of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek composer Alex Spyropoulos (born 1941, Athens) and English producer Ray Singer (born 1946). On their recordings Campbell-Lyons, Ray Singer and Spyropoulos supplied all the vocals.
- 1966–1971, 1985–present
- London, United Kingdom
- Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Alex Spyropoulos
- Ray Singer
Patrick Campbell-Lyons. Profile: Songwriter & producer, famous for being part of the core duo behind Nirvana [UK]. Born on 13 July 1943, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. Sites: psychedelicdays.com , Wikipedia. Aliases: Patrick O'Magick, Rock O'Doodle, Tails (2), The Cisco Kid (2) In Groups:
Jason Barnard of the Strange Brew Podcast talks to Patrick Campbell-Lyons, one half of psychedelic pioneers Nirvana. A legendary sixties figure, Patrick tells the Strange Brew of his early days to his time in Nirvana, the first group to be released on Island Records and the first to produce a rock-opera with “The Story of Simon Simopath” LP.
17 ott 2022 · Nirvana duo Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos come from a time before the term ‘progressive rock’ existed, psychedelia exploding all around when Tiny Goddess manifested with exquisite baroque loveliness as their Peel-championed first single in July 1967.
Patrick Campbell-Lyons is an Irish musician. He performed in several bands in the West London music scene during the early 1960s, such as the R&B band Second Thoughts. Campbell-Lyons...
