Nirvana (60s-70s pop group) Help!

I had no idea there was a Nirvana in the 60s/70s!

wow,.. neither did I suzy:


"It must have been a rude surprise for Kurt Cobain and company to be hit with a lawsuit over the name of their band once they became internationally successful. In the finish, however, the result was relatively amicable, with the original Nirvana getting together long enough to record a version of Cobain's "Lithium" for a 1996 collection of previously unreleased material.

Nirvana appeared in 1967, starting as a six-piece led by Patrick Campbell-Lyons from Ireland, and Alex Spyropoulos from Greece. They were quickly signed to the fledgling Island label, which had formed out of Chris Blackwell's street-level R&B and rock steady label operations, Blackwell recognizing a need to hook into the exploding psychedelic genre of the time. The first LP to emerge was the science-fiction concept album, The Story of Simon Simopath, which yielded their second single, "Pentecost Hotel" (their first and third singles appeared on the follow-up, All of Us.)"


brimstone - I did a search on All Music Guide, and no listing for "Love Is" came up under Nirvana (UK) - is that the correct name of the song? If it definitely is, which album did it appear on? - this might help my search.

Are you referring perhaps to a local group, brimstone? (Although, I'm quite sure, it wasn't then a UK group: at least, it's no group like that mentioned in the off-line references.)

Everything old is new again.

some more info:


"The band's early performances yielded something of an audience, but this did not translate into explosive sales in England or America, though the band achieved some success in Europe. Winnowing down to the core duo of Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos, Nirvana continued to release singles from All of Us, with the title track going on to be selected as the theme song for The Touchables, while "Rainbow Chaser", an almost-hit, came to be considered a classic psychedelic outing."