Gary Wright, a spiritually-minded singer-songwriter who helped modernize the sound of pop music with his pioneering use of synthesizers while crafting infectious and seemingly inescapable hits of the 1970s like Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive, died on Monday at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. He was 80.
The New Jersey-bred Mr. Wright rose to prominence in the late 1960s after relocating to London and helping to form the bluesy British progressive rock band Spooky Tooth... He soon befriended George Harrison, with whom he would collaborate frequently over the years...
His spiritual awakening helped spawn Dream Weaver, a track from his 1975 album, The Dream Weaver, which hit No. 7 on the Billboard album chart and rocketed him to fame... The song was inspired by the yogi's poem God, God, God, which includes the line My mind weaves dreams.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]