Frequent collaborator of George Harrison and synthesiser pioneer was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia
Gary Wright, singer of pop hits Dream Weaver and Love is Alive, has died aged 80.his father died on Monday at home in California, and had been diagnosed with both Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
Known best for hits Dream Weaver and Love is Alive, which both peaked at No 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Wright was also a composer and producer, and frequently collaborated with Beatles musician George Harrison. After playing in high school bands, Wright decided music was “too unstable” to do professionally and instead trained to be a doctor in the US and West Germany. In Europe, he abandoned medicine for music and in 1967 became joint lead vocalist in the British blues band Spooky Tooth before embarking on a solo career in 1970.Photograph: Brian Cooke/Redferns
Wright reformed Spooky Tooth between 1972 and 1974, but it was his 1975 solo album The Dream Weaver – the hit title track inspired by a trip to India with Harrison – that made him famous. The album is now regarded as one of the first rock records made almost entirely with synthesisers. Wright was known for performing live on portable keyboards – then unusual – and the keytar.
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