Richard Lyons (Composer)

Richard Lyons was an American musician, best known for being one of the founding members of the experimental music band Negativland. His personas in the band included Dick Vaughn, 5-time CalPi Award winner; auto trivia expert Dick Goodbody, and Pastor Richard Seeland, an ordained minister.

While looking through used records in a thrift store in the mid 1980s, Lyons discovered a 1968 LP by Baptist preacher Estus Pirkle entitled If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? Lyons was intrigued by the LP and brought it to the other members of Negativland. They sampled phrases and rearranged words from Pirkle's sermon to create the song "Christianity Is Stupid" which was released on their 1987 album Escape From Noise. Another song from Escape From Noise, "Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song", was composed and sung by Lyons.

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