Patrick Campbell-Lyons (born 13 July 1943), is an Irish composer and musician who is one half of the cult symphonic-rock band,

Nirvana ( , , ; sa, निर्वाण} ''nirvāṇa'' ; Pali: ''nibbāna''; Prakrit: ''ṇivvāṇa''; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, ''Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo.' ...

, formed in London in 1967. Campbell-Lyons, a native of

Lismore, County Waterford Lismore () is a historic town in County Waterford, in the province of Munster, Ireland. Originally associated with Saint Mochuda of Lismore, who founded Lismore Abbey in the 7th century, the town developed around the medieval Lismore Castle. As ...

, 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,

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founder/drummer

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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 Spyropoulos. 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

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together with bonus tracks from one of Nirvana's later albums ''Songs of Love and Praise''. In early July 2008, Campbell-Lyons started to write a book, ''Psychedelic Days'', about his life and times in 1960’s London and beyond. In 2017 he released a new album on the Market Square Records Label called ''You're a Cloud, I'm a Comet'' released on 180-gramme vinyl LP with CD included.

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