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    Nirvana’s Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos on their swinging ’60s

    Jan 14, 2021 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW:JIMWIRTH

    You first met at La Gioconda on Denmark Street: correct?

    ALEX SPYROPOULOS: Everybody would meet along Denmark Street because there was so many studios and publishers. I met Patrick there, and it sparkled straight away. I’m Greek, he’s Irish; we were two foreigners and two opposites.

    I’m a bit of a pessimist, he’s a bit of an optimist. There was no-one like us on Island. Spooky Tooth were talking about Don Covay or Sam & Dave; Stevie Winwood was talking about Ray Charles. When we first met, we didn’t talk about music: we

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