Patrick Campbell-Lyons

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Patrick Campbell-Lyons (born 1943, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland), is a composer and musician who is one half of the cult pop/progressive rock act, 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 including Second Thoughts (with future record producer Chris Thomas and Thunderclap Newman founder/drummer Speedy Keen). In 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.